Research Cruise

Menu

Breakfast

• Yogurt
• Cereal
• Egg scramble
• French toast

Lunch

• Linguini with clam sauce
• Grilled pepper steak
• Rice
• Turkey noodle soup
• Salad bar

Dinner

• Sauteed shrimp
• Fried rice
• Cheese tortellini
• Salad bar
• Pound cake

Weather

Calm and clear seas and skies

Position

Same as yesterday 

…So there’s nothing particularly special about Friday, I just didn’t have another title for today’s post.  Jason is still down on the seafloor, now up around 1700 meters.  It’s been a fantastic dive so far; this depth range is chock-full of fossil dianthus and big ones too!  It’s been by far the most successful collection, with over 500 solitaries collected in one quad box (A quad box is simply four milk crates bound together in a square).  We’re working full-time, and have been cycling elevators for the past few days; tomorrow, both elevators are currently on the floor, and each can hold 2 quad boxes and several nets.  We’re also hoping to do some photomosaic work using the HD camera of some of the seamount faces and walls we’ve come across – there are some really fascinating niches down here, so it should prove an interesting form of documentation of the Southern Hills. 

So we were given a book of verbal puzzles for Christmas, and are thoroughly stuck on one of them – “The word ADEPT consists of five letters in alphabetical order from left to right.  The name of what fabric consists of six letters in alphabetical order?”  Free fossil coral to anyone who gives the right answer!

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 27th, 2008 at 3:44 am by Adam Subhas and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.