1632 Reach bottom, and park while Atlantis runs a survey -- depth is 2620 meters
1711 Survey finished. Head towards Parago
1714 We see old sulfide
1723 We arrive at Genesis -- massive diffuse flow, lots of flock
1729 Start taking temps, and picking places to sample
1751 Begin sipping from small mound in front of large Riftia Pillar. All tubes fairly cold (9-20) most in the low 10s
#1 – misfire
#2 – slow draw
#3 – very slow draw
#4 – good draw
1814 Collect Alvinella from location sipped
1838 Flood Chamber 1
1840 Collect Riftia from base of large pillar into biobox. HiT shows 78
1857 Collect basalt
1900 Onwards -- we drive around through a blizzard of flock looking for grand bonum, but can’t find it. We eventually give up and go back to Genesis. We can’t see any mussels to collect, but we do manage to get another rock.