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As we steam into La Paz, we are busily
packing the lab and cleaning our staterooms to ready them for the next
leg. We wish Charlie Paull and his science crew our best wishes for good
weather and scientific success during in their leg. We had excellent
weather during our leg. The temperatures were comfortable, and the winds
were calm except for a few days at the northern and southern limits of our
expedition. The 25 mph winds during our last dive at the 21˚ North
East Pacific Rise site prevented us from deploying the elevator. The elevator is a
platform that is lowered to the bottom on a cable and released. We have
sample boxes on board for our animal collections. At the end of the dive
the elevator is released, and it floats passively to the surface when the
R/V Western Flyer crew recover it. Unfortunately, the winds prevented
deployment, and we had to quickly redesign the sample basket to
accommodate our objectives. The
dive was successful, which speaks well of the flexibility and cooperation
seen in the science team and the pilots. I thank them all for a very successful
expedition. Also, I wish to thank Susan Von
Thun, who has managed the
video annotation team during the whole expedition. Susan put in many long
hours patiently training other workers. Her breadth of biological
knowledge impressed me. I frequently asked her to identify many of the
fish and mid-water creatures we saw during our dives. Thanks Susan. Bob Vrijenhoek, Chief Scientist |
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The leg 4 scientific party: Top row from left: Peter
Girguis, Josh Plant,
Susan Von Thun, Shana
Goffredi, Mike Henry,
Bob Vrijenhoek.
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