X: 4678 Y: 77631 Heading: 248
15.45 Started to recover frying pan.
16.18 Took HT measurements from area of frying pan: 310–319 °C. Finally found and recovered frying pan from hot black smoker. Could not see anything due to smoke: put in forward container of biobox
16.48 Collected about 20 mussels
approximately 10 meters east of TY
X: 4679 Y: 77818 Heading: 214
17.07 Done with mussel collection, heading
to Tica.
17.46 Arrived at southern area of Tica.
17.57 Tica central 2513 meters.
X:
4560 Y: 78158 Heading: 273
Deployment of Monika’s baby traps #21, #22, #23 Area south, 50 feet off Tica black smoker, on eastern side of Tica mount #21: top pin pulled already: #22: no lead: #23 ok
18.11 Deployment done, looking for
Horst’s crab trap.
18.21 Crab trap recovery in rear biobox.
X: 4536 Y: 78167 Heading: 189
Unfortunately trap + mussels did not fit, so Gavin tried to squeeze the trap in the container, crushed some mussels and trap, so that all crabs escaped, except one or two that fled to the middle container of the biobox.
18.34 Heading for East Wall, had
to look for the Fries and Prototraps for a while.
19.29 Fired Sipper #1, 4.8 °C, Prototrap
E in mussels
19.30 Fired Sipper #2, 6.5–7.1 °C, Frie 47 in mussels
19.34 Fired Sipper #3, 9–9.2 °C, Frie 48 in Riftia
20.06 Fired Sipper #4, 4.4 °C, Frie 41 near mussels
20.07 Fired Sipper #5, 4.2 °C, Prototrap D outside mussels
20.15 Fired Sipper #6, 2.2 °C, Frie 44 in periphery
20.25 Deployed Michael’s marker at
East Wall to pick up tomorrow
X: 4567 Y: 78417 Heading: 241 2502 meters
20.44 Ran out of power, dropped weights, left …
