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November 4, 2002

Date: 11/4/02
Pilot: Pat Hickey
Port Observer: Julie Robidart
Starboard Observer: Amir Ghadiri

GMT
X
Y
Site
Temp (oC)
Description
15:32 4723 77748 ??   Hit Bottom
~15:53 4723 77625 Ty/Io 300–320° (on top) Found hot chimney, grabbed chunk of dead chimney (~2–3oC: to the side of hot one) to find hotter temps, but temps after dead chimney collection still at ~2–3oC.
15:50 4735 77643 Alvinella Pillar 309° Took temp of smoke coming from top of Alvinella Pillar.
15:56 4736 77644 Alvinella Pillar 30° Saw worms, but too cold — no collection
16:05         Heading to P vent (saw octopuses, but no videos).
16:21 4666 77912 P vent 100–150° Arrive P vent, take temps of beehive/chimney.
16:40 4665 77915 P vent 80–127° Sipper 1 fired (at top of beehive).
16:43     P vent 129–180° Sipper 2 fired (at side of beehive).
16:50 4666 77914 P vent   Deployed ASU Arnie.
16:53 4666 77914 P vent 5° Post-deployment Temp/Sipper #3.
16:54         Headed to Bio9.
16:58 4661 77958 Bio9   Arrived Bio9.
17:06 4661 77958 Bio9 165–180° Sipper 4 — side of chimney.
17:08 4661 77958 Bio9 40° Sipper 5 — side of chimney.
17:10 4661 77958 Bio9   ASU frying pan deployed.
17:12 4661 77958 Bio9 15° Sipper 6 — above screen in frying pan.
17:12 4661 77958 Bio9 30° Sipper 7— above screen in frying pan.
17:19     Bio9   Wommacker sighted.
17:23 4646 77953 Bio9 36° Temp taken, Wommacker released to uncertain destiny (same sight as Harold Devices, so got the temp on those, too).
17:33 4655 77960 Bio9   Sighted worms.
17:42 4655 77960 Bio9 50–65° Sipper 8 fired in occupied tube.
17:45 4655 77960 Bio9 33–43° Sipper 9 fired in occupied tube.
17:47 4655 77960 Bio9 80–97° Sipper 10  misfire.
17:50 4655 77960 Bio9 39–56° Sipper 11 misfire (?)
17:51 4655 77960 Bio9 56° Sipper 12 fired.
17:59 4655 77960 Bio9 56° "Refired" all syringes to retry syringes 10 and 11 (?)
"(?)" = not sure whether Sipper 10 collected water from the 80–97o tube, or the 56o tube.
17:51 4655 77960 Bio9   Pat got GREAT 3-chip video, but we're not sure whether the tape had already run out.
17:59 4655 77960 Bio9   Julie broke the sub. Pan-and-tilt no longer pans nor tilts — depend on 3-chip from here on out.
18:25 4655 77960 Bio9   After a lot of frustration, finished getting ~4–5 worms in DISSR
18:34 4655 77960 Bio9 45–237° Temp at scar, post-collection.
18:44 4655 77959 Bio9 ?? Mosquito deployed on same pillar, but below worm collection site — didn't get temp (too precarious).
18:48         Headed to Q vent.
19:03     East Wall   Passed East Wall.
19:08     Mussel Bed   Passed Mussel Bed.
19:25 4446 78698 Q vent   Arrived Q vent.
19:35 4446 78698     Found ASU ForePlay (FP): some sulfide growing at sides, white bacterial mattish-looking stuff all over. Too precarious to take temps.
19:35 4442 78696     Found ASU Stanley: a little more sulfide at sides. Also with mattish-looking stuff. Also too precarious to take temps. Lots of worms around this area — possible worm collection site after frying pan collections? Got great 3-chip of both frying pans.
19:45 4442 78696     Good video of crabs chillin'.
20:01 4464 78837 M vent   Arrived M vent.
20:02 4464 78837     Left bottom.

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