Dave and Brian's Excellent Adventures

Day 8, Way Point 10A, East Flower Garden

We've started out well, Argus has been underwater for more than 12 hours, and things seem to be clicking away.

We have an interesting schedule for our morning. We're doing a scientist transfer from the NR-1. They drop a small motor boat off the Chouest, and drive two fresh and clean scientists out to the NR-1 and transfer them with two not so great smelling scientists.




We have another set of shows today. Interesting enough, the satellite we're using is directly above us, and unfortunately when the sun passes over us at noon time, we have a sun-out. That means we lose our satellite connection for about 10 minutes or so. The reason for this is that the sun passes behind our satellite, and our dish is bombarded by the radiation coming from the Sun and wipes out the signal coming from our satellite. That's why, if you watch www.immersionpresents.org and click on "Channel" and watch the 1pm EST show, you'll notice you won't see any "live" footage from the ship. It's either a taped show or it will be all Dr. Ballard all the time.

posted by DaveandBrian @ 3:03 PM