14.36 Tested Sipper on way down, fired #12, worked perfect
15.22 Found ball set of LVWS
15.25 At 2510 m, land next to LVWS, and Pat grabs it.
15.38 Head to M vent with LVWS
15.54 Arrive M vent, no Riftia, just scattered remains.
15.59 Drop LVWS diffuse flow where Riftia used
to be 2505 m, +223, X4420, Y78898
16.05 Purge
16.13.19 LVWS noted to be filling visually by Pat
16.18 Sipper wand temp for LVWS source water 19.5°
16.22 Commencing Sipper work on Alvinella
X4415, Y78898, 2502 m alt: 10.2 heading +118
(Fired Sipper 1, no problem, but then gave error on selecting bottle and Sipper 2 didn’t fire. Rebooted computer, and Sipper worked fine after that).
Sipper
# Sipper in time temp
range° pump time fire time
1 16.25 18.8-49 16.27 16.29.25
2 16.34.20 30-40,
57 16.34.30 16.36.58
3 16.38.30 21.3-29 16.38.53 16.41.25
4 16.42.55 19-26 16.43.15 16.45.26
5 16.51.45 30-40 16.51.54
16.54.10
6 16.56.35 50 16.56.40 16.58.50
7 17.00 47-48 17.01.03
17.03.13
8 17.04 22.7-52.5 17.05.44
17.08.05
9 17.11.10 28-47
17.11.20 17.13.42
10 17.15.24 35-55
17.15.26
17.17.39
11 17.20.59 40-43
17.21.01
17.23.29
17.24 Sipper work completed
17.26 Moving back to LVWS
17.28 Released LVWS
17.34 Sulfide temps taken from M vent:
Sulfide
#1 – Top temp = 4.7°
Sulfide #2 (rounder
shape) Top =120-132
Middle
temp = 13.7° Mid
= 44°
Bottom
temp = 15.9° Bot
= 235°
17.36 Prototrap J temperatures -- Bottom = 39.8°, Top 39.7°
17.39 Both sulfides collected
17.40 Prototrap J collected
17.43 Grabbed a bunch of Alvinella
X4423,
Y78897, 2502 m, +109
17.44.56 At Sipper location, Arty Chamber 1 open
17.46 Worms removed from tubes and
first worm into Chamber 1, temp range 20-35°
18.03.04 Approx. 5 worms, Chamber 1 flooded RNAlater
18.04.50 Worms removed from tubes and into chamber 2, temp range 20-30°
18.22.00 Approx. 5-6 worms in Chamber 2 and flooded with RNAlater
18.22 First worm removed from tube and into Chamber 3, temp range 30-35°
18.40 Chamber 3 flooded with RNAlater, over 5 worms in chamber
18.42 Finish sucking up worms, depart for Q vent
18.52 Arrive at Q vent
18.53 Pat modifies chimney structure
19.04 Frying pan deployed during Call to the Deep,
X4427,
Y78787, 2503m +257
Original chimney = 149-155° at top, 315-324° a few inches away
Temp after deployment at middle of frying pan = 244°
19.16 Phone call finished and head to Michael’s vent
19.28 Prototrap C collected at Michael’s vent, it’s covered with material
X4435,
Y78722, 2507 m, -46
19.29 Head to Tica
20.00 Arrive at Tica
20.04 Deploy crab trap in Riftia,
X4585,
Y78202, 2514 m, +194
20.14 Two prototraps collected from Riftia, no time for temps.
X4586,
Y78201, 2510 m +59
20.21 Pat parks Alvin in Riftia and rakes some crabs into biobox
20.23 Heading to Bio9
20.31 Arrived at Bio9
20.33 Picked up Mosquito,
X4621, Y78014, 2508m, +10
20.37 Run out of power, drop weights.