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Steaming
south. Sometimes you eat the bear—sometimes the bear eats you. The wind picked up again last night and
though we hung around, hoping it would moderate, by midday it was clear
that we had no chance for another dive in Carmen Basin. So we are steaming
toward our next dive site, a little east of Cerralvo Island and a little
west of Cerralvo Bank, where we made our first dive on the midwater leg of
the Expedition. For lack of a better name, we are calling it Cerralvo
Trough. It has the advantage of being the deepest spot close to La Paz,
where we must be by 1600 hours tomorrow afternoon. Underway we have a
following sea and the wind behind us, so it seems as though the R/V
Western Flyer is really flying. She's the only one because the
birds must be walking today.
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see that many familiar animals, like salps
and larvaceans, live very much closer to the surface in the Gulf than they
do back home. We think this is because the oxygen minimum zone comes so
close to the surface here, that animals which are intolerant of low oxygen
are squeezed upwards into a narrow band of water near the surface.
Our
plan is to begin our dive at 0400 hours tomorrow morning, dive until 1100
hours, and then head for the beach. Last communiqué tomorrow...
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