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We’re all done. Nereus has been safely recovered in board from the last dive, the last CTD is complete and the cable greased. We’re now headed to Jamaica collecting swath bathymetry along the way until we leave Cayman Islands waters around 8pm Sunday. As Vinnie Jones says at the end of “Lock Stock & 2 … Continued
Saturday June 29th was an epic day. Also among the 4 top traumatic experiences I have ever had at sea with a robot. (All of which have come in the past 8 years!) Our dive started beautifully as we landed near the Hot Chimlets vents and set to work collecting microbes attached to a rock … Continued
Getting close to the end now and not a moment too soon, apparently – because today I completely lost my marbles. Let me explain. Last July, Cindy and I – together with our friend and colleague Dana “Gramps” Yoerger – found ourselves leading an exploration of the US continental margin east of the Carolinas without … Continued
Another great dive today to Von Damm. We didn’t dive until 6am but happily that gave Casey and the rest of the Nereus team plenty of chance to get our manipulator fixed and working really well again without any of the twitches from the day before. On the seabed by 7:30 we quickly found some … Continued
A very solid dive today but also a very short blog because it is premature to know what to write just yet. We launched at 4am which was way earlier than my brain really wanted me to be awake. I hadn’t got to bed until after midnight so the 3:15 alarm hurt – even triple … Continued
One of my NSF program managers sent me a message today saying that our live broadcasts could do with better music. Unfortunately, Jeremy (ETO and Higher Life Form) found out the hard way earlier in the cruise, when testing out the system, that we cannot lay music over the web-cast on YouTube due to Piracy … Continued
Nereus underwent a major conversion in the past few days – actually more than one, which proved to be a little ambitious. When you sawNereus last it was a deep diving, plume-sniffing, seafloor mapping and photo-surveying AUV. Then, it went off in pursuit of Decepticons driving around the streets of Jamaica in Chevy Camaro form. … Continued
Science seriously progressed today. It didn’t come easy but maybe that just makes it all the sweeter. Our launch was text-book just after 4am and separation went well at 5:30am with only a few moments of tension as we passed through 2000m. Then, right on schedule, at 7:30am we made “landfall” at just less than … Continued
Science progressed today. But it didn’t come quietly. Last night I realized that if I was sending Blog 28 ashore then I must have been gone from home for 4 weeks already. And my personal highlight for the cruise, diving to the seafloor at the Piccard site, still lay ahead. So I was awake at … Continued
Today wasn’t our best day for Telepresence, I’m afraid – but fortunately, we had international help to cover for us, not more than 20 miles away ☺ Our planned launch for 06h00 had already slipped to 06h30 when we developed a problem with our depressor, just as we were getting ready to launch. It didn’t take … Continued
