| Dive R495 | |||||||
| Dive Plan: 1) Fluid sampling of southern caldera/upper South Rift Zone vents - Mkr-108, Mkr-113, Castle, Joystick, Coquilles, Bag City. 2) Suction sampling: Mkr-113 Marcus/Moyer, Bag City Moyer/Juniper, Diatom mat on new lava - Tunnicliffe. | |||||||
| 3) Recover and deploy MTR's at Mkr-113 and Bag City. 4) Sulfide sampling at Castle. 5) Finish Imagenex survey, geology traverse south. | |||||||
| ROPOS Configuration: Hot Fluid Sampler, Suction sampler (j1 - j4 and 1 - 4), Niskin, Imagenex, cameras and rock purse | |||||||
| Note: Nav fixes not edited in the logs. All fixes were logged, regardless of accuracy. Use the dive plots to determine actual positions. | |||||||
| UTC Hour | Min | Depth (m) | Sub Hdng (deg) | UTM X | UTM Y | Comments | Frmgrbs, Photos, Samples |
| 3 | 39 | 99 | 290 | 422709 | 5083710 | ROPOS in water at 3:30, Julian Day 186. | |
| 4 | 52 | 1478 | 328 | 423814 | 5087055 | Nearing bottom, water is murky. | |
| 4 | 56 | 1519 | 18 | 424638 | 5087317 | On the bottom, lineated sheets and ropy sheets. old flows | |
| 5 | 0 | 1521 | 97 | 423812 | 5087127 | Mkr-33 in view. | |
| 5 | 2 | 1522 | 241 | 423845 | 5087103 | AT vent site. Lots of growth on the Osmo samplers already. | |
| 5 | 6 | 1523 | 191 | 423841 | 5087040 | Mkr-33 site with gear | R495-3 |
| 5 | 7 | 1523 | 202 | 423841 | 5087040 | Mkr-33 vent site, deploying OsmoSampler | Photo-1 |
| 5 | 13 | 1523 | 187 | 423824 | 5087152 | osmoanalyzer Fe-analyzer Deployed at Mkr-33 | R495-4 |
| 5 | 18 | 1523 | 193 | 423836 | 5087124 | placement of osmo | R495-5 |
| 5 | 21 | 1523 | 198 | 423821 | 5087152 | Placement continued - osmo | R495-6 |
| 5 | 21 | 1523 | 198 | 423821 | 5087152 | Finishing positioning Osmo sampler just to right of bacteria traps under the lip of the sheet flow, in the concentrated fluid flow. | |
| 5 | 26 | 1523 | 187 | 423845 | 5087108 | Placement continued | R495-7 |
| 5 | 31 | 1523 | 185 | 423847 | 5087107 | final osmo placement | R495-8 |
| 5 | 27 | 1523 | 187 | 424648 | 5087324 | Going to take a temp measurement with the fluid sampler tip. Temps. Max 15 C. Photo 2 of position of deployed Osmo. in vent at Mkr-33. | Photo-2 |
| 5 | 32 | 1523 | 185 | 423870 | 5087044 | Making a lateral video survey of area around Mkr-33. Highlights being taken to. | |
| 5 | 33 | 1523 | 179 | 423845 | 5087109 | R495-9 | |
| 5 | 33 | 1523 | 178 | 423845 | 5087109 | R49510 | |
| 5 | 34 | 1523 | 180 | 423845 | 5087109 | Picture of fracture at Mkr-33 with the many interesting pieces of scientific equipment. | Photo-3, 4 |
| 5 | 36 | 1523 | 184 | 424645 | 5087322 | R495-12 | |
| 5 | 37 | 1523 | 202 | 423846 | 5087103 | R495-13 | |
| 5 | 36 | 1523 | 178 | 424645 | 5087322 | Photos of vent facing S. | photo-6,7, 8 |
| 5 | 37 | 1522 | 220 | 423856 | 5087086 | R495-14 | |
| 5 | 37 | 1523 | 220 | 423856 | 5087086 | turning to face the fracture, taking more photos | Photo 9 |
| 5 | 38 | 1523 | 234 | 423855 | 5087078 | R495-15 | |
| 5 | 38 | 1523 | 236 | 423855 | 5087078 | R495-16 | |
| 5 | 38 | 1523 | 234 | 423855 | 5087078 | one more photo of site and deployment. | photo-10 |
| 5 | 39 | 1523 | 232 | 423936 | 5086880 | R495-17 | |
| 5 | 42 | 1522 | 228 | 423747 | 5087351 | Need to reposition traps | R495-18 |
| 5 | 48 | 1523 | 103 | 423833 | 5087055 | Backside of Mkr-33 | R495-19 |
| 5 | 49 | 1523 | 88 | 423851 | 5087102 | R495-20 | |
| 5 | 51 | 1524 | 36 | 424647 | 5087321 | Tube worms galore | R495-21 |
| 5 | 50 | 1524 | 40 | 423853 | 5087085 | Moving to the S side of the sheet flow, where the slab has collapsed and there is new? venting. Tubeworms, snails, limpets, bacteria, bag creatures present. Possible that the slab of sheet dropped within the last year so this venting is a new expression. | |
| 5 | 52 | 1524 | 36 | 423846 | 5087110 | Concentrated diffuse venting has worms and snails. Trying to get a temperature. Max temp around 14 C. | |
| 6 | 1 | 1523 | 184 | 423838 | 5087058 | View of area around Mkr-33 | photo-12 |
| 6 | 2 | 1523 | 197 | 423843 | 5087098 | transect | R495-22 |
| 6 | 2 | 1523 | 221 | 423713 | 5087595 | R495-23 | |
| 6 | 3 | 1522 | 216 | 423713 | 5087595 | R495-24 | |
| 6 | 3 | 1522 | 222 | 423713 | 5087595 | R495-25 | |
| 6 | 3 | 1522 | 217 | 423967 | 5086873 | R495-26 | |
| 6 | 7 | 1523 | 214 | 423718 | 5087595 | Repositioning Bacterial traps 41 so that they are closer to venting. | |
| 6 | 9 | 1523 | 213 | 423848 | 5087109 | Trap reposition of 41, 42 looks good! | R495-27 |
| 6 | 9 | 1523 | 190 | 423847 | 5087113 | Moving ship to Mkr-108. | |
| 6 | 16 | 1518 | 181 | 423968 | 5086640 | lava spires | R495-28 |
| 6 | 16 | 1519 | 179 | 423968 | 5086640 | more lava pillars | R495-29 |
| 6 | 18 | 1516 | 186 | 424779 | 5087025 | A moving experience. over old collapse area, pillars galore. | |
| 6 | 19 | 1518 | 182 | 423964 | 5086598 | White bacterial? stains on tops of pillars/ lobate crusts of roofs of drained out areas. | |
| 6 | 23 | 1517 | 175 | 423868 | 5086975 | Continue in collapse area with many pillars. some seem to be aligned. May be 3-4 m deep? Altimeter is not on. Depth of collapse seems to be | |
| 6 | 27 | 1519 | 239 | 423788 | 5086921 | Pillars and collapse area. Photo 15 is of a fallen pillar. | Photo 14,15 |
| 6 | 29 | 1519 | 218 | 423766 | 5086905 | roof over pillar | R495-30 |
| 6 | 30 | 1518 | 216 | 423761 | 5086896 | Roof over collapse | R495-31 |
| 6 | 30 | 1517 | 213 | 423766 | 5086891 | Still heading SW. Started Imagenex. Collapse region, with more uncollapsed roof. Not more than a meter or two deep here. | |
| 6 | 33 | 1517 | 212 | 423747 | 5086858 | Turning on suction bottle to get a background temp. | |
| 6 | 36 | 1519 | 217 | 423732 | 5086821 | Large coherent sheet flow on floor of collapse. Taking temp up in water column. Folded and jumbled sheets. | |
| 6 | 43 | 1519 | 274 | 423702 | 5086775 | rumble-o-meter | R495-32 |
| 6 | 40 | 1520 | 219 | 423719 | 5086780 | Broken up sheets, chaotic area. Rumbleometer in sight. Sitting in folded sheets. | |
| 6 | 44 | 1520 | 132 | 423716 | 5086770 | Fairly flat area of mostly folded sheet flows and jumbled sheets. Light sediment in-between folds. | |
| 6 | 48 | 1521 | 201 | 423784 | 5086704 | Ropy sheets then into folded sheets and then jumbled sheets. | |
| 6 | 49 | 1522 | 204 | 423781 | 5086656 | Some relief here. Pillars again with bacterial staining. Lots of white staining. May be venting. more activity. | Photo 16 |
| 6 | 51 | 1515 | 183 | 423778 | 5086616 | water definite cloudy here. | |
| 6 | 52 | 1518 | 186 | 423780 | 5086604 | Pillars have staining on them but relatively little on the collapsed floor. | |
| 6 | 54 | 1520 | 230 | 423780 | 5086589 | Mkr-108? | R495-33 |
| 6 | 54 | 1520 | 230 | 423780 | 5086589 | Top of pillar with some bacterial stains. | R495-34 |
| 6 | 54 | 1518 | 223 | 423775 | 5086591 | good fixes. | |
| 6 | 56 | 1509 | 350 | 423766 | 5086601 | Tether management. We'll take a short break and then Andy will take over. | |
| 7 | 6 | 1499 | 124 | 423738 | 5086632 | looking for Mkr-108, bearing 105, around 25m away | |
| 7 | 8 | 1523 | 100 | 423752 | 5086614 | ropy sheet flow, possible venting to the left | photo 17 |
| 7 | 8 | 1523 | 106 | 423758 | 5086612 | staining of ropy sheets, with fracturing, mkr should be around south end of pillar | photo 18 |
| 7 | 10 | 1519 | 39 | 423778 | 5086591 | staining on pillar | photo 19 |
| 7 | 10 | 1522 | 20 | 423752 | 5086608 | tube worms visible, venting is apparent but no marker in sight, good fix | |
| 7 | 11 | 1523 | 38 | 423777 | 5086605 | no marker visible, but according to fix should be around 20 meters away | |
| 7 | 13 | 1520 | 177 | 423407 | 5087266 | staining visible on surrounding pillars | |
| 7 | 14 | 1519 | 182 | 423782 | 5086601 | smaller pillars with visible venting | |
| 7 | 15 | 1519 | 250 | 423757 | 5086591 | date is wrong on the overlay - it is one day behind | |
| 7 | 16 | 1519 | 296 | 423757 | 5086593 | coming around to get on south side of pillar, lots of white staining but no apparent venting | |
| 7 | 16 | 1520 | 11 | 423772 | 5086587 | no venting on south side of pillar | |
| 7 | 17 | 1519 | 47 | 423772 | 5086585 | possible marker in distance, moving around to check it out | |
| 7 | 18 | 1520 | 6 | 423778 | 5086589 | good fixes, lots of floc but no marker yet | |
| 7 | 20 | 1520 | 100 | 423786 | 5086592 | good fixes | |
| 7 | 24 | 1518 | 251 | 423776 | 5086589 | heading back to first place we saw venting, worms are visible on top of pillar | |
| 7 | 25 | 1520 | 230 | 423778 | 5086580 | stopped on top of pillar, appears that there is a little bit of venting, very slow trickle of non shimmery water. | |
| 7 | 27 | 1519 | 318 | 423301 | 5087530 | heading NW, 318.2 to the place we started looking for Mkr-108 | |
| 7 | 29 | 1521 | 338 | 423764 | 5086599 | low lying pillar with cracks leading up to it, but no shimmering water, continuing | |
| 7 | 32 | 1521 | 323 | 423756 | 5086603 | good fix, has us right under cage | |
| 7 | 33 | 1520 | 6 | 423746 | 5086625 | fix now has us north west of cage, with no pillars in sight | |
| 7 | 36 | 1520 | 270 | 423305 | 5087533 | jagged, crumbly flow | |
| 7 | 37 | 1521 | 271 | 423738 | 5086591 | good fix, due west of target by about 40 meters but no pillars in sight | |
| 7 | 38 | 1520 | 89 | 423726 | 5086587 | heading straight east over jumbled ropy sheet flow | |
| 7 | 39 | 1521 | 86 | 423749 | 5086583 | good fix | |
| 7 | 40 | 1520 | 86 | 423743 | 5086575 | possible vent out of big hole, but we cant get to near it to check it out | |
| 7 | 44 | 1521 | 81 | 423771 | 5086586 | good fix, and some vent coming out of the base of a pillar, we are going to continue the transect to the east and then come back if there is nothing better | |
| 7 | 47 | 1522 | 352 | 423773 | 5086605 | venting coming out of hole with worms surrounding it. Dave has decided to sample here | |
| 7 | 49 | 1523 | 29 | 423312 | 5087530 | we are 20 meters at 329 from the target but have decided to sample from what appears to be two holes | |
| 7 | 51 | 1523 | 73 | 423772 | 5086607 | placing the temp probe inside one of the holes, | |
| 7 | 56 | 1524 | 136 | 423781 | 5086593 | good fix, but the temp probe bumped into the side of the vent and now it has collapsed into a swirling mass of floc and shimmering water, the temperature did reach 9 C though. | |
| 8 | 7 | 1524 | 132 | 423771 | 5086608 | temp is around 13.6 C for max | |
| 8 | 7 | 1524 | 128 | 423772 | 5086609 | starting first sample, max 13.6 C | HFS-17_dfl _R495-1 |
| 8 | 9 | 1524 | 132 | 423789 | 5086580 | the last was a false start, now we are really sampling! | |
| 8 | 11 | 1524 | 130 | 423771 | 5086608 | Taking hfs at base of pillar near Mkr-108 | R495-35 |
| 8 | 14 | 1524 | 131 | 423772 | 5086608 | stopping sampling, 50ml sampled | |
| 8 | 16 | 1524 | 130 | 423751 | 5086609 | starting to sample with gas piston 5 | HFS-5_dfl
_R495-2 |
| 8 | 17 | 1524 | 129 | 423751 | 5086609 | stopping sampling at 125ml | |
| 8 | 18 | 1524 | 128 | 423324 | 5087585 | picture of sample site | photo 20 |
| 8 | 18 | 1524 | 132 | 423981 | 5086592 | starting sampling | HFS-10_dfl
_R495-3 |
| 8 | 24 | 1524 | 130 | 423771 | 5086607 | stopping sample with 60ml of fluid, this is the last fluid sample here, we are now heading south to slurp | |
| 8 | 27 | 1524 | 128 | 423774 | 5086605 | Where we fluid sampled near Mkr-108 | R495-36 |
| 8 | 28 | 1524 | 126 | 423774 | 5086607 | leaving sampling site | |
| 8 | 29 | 1522 | 197 | 423752 | 5086602 | saw 2 Alvin dive weights 1 m at 238 heading | |
| 8 | 32 | 1523 | 204 | 423769 | 5086563 | heading over ropy sheet flow to get a suction sample | |
| 8 | 33 | 1525 | 220 | 423756 | 5086558 | found a good pocket of sediment to sample, now attempting to pick up the suction sampler, good fix of x=3755 y=6560 | |
| 8 | 36 | 1525 | 219 | 423757 | 5086560 | good fix | |
| 8 | 47 | 1525 | 265 | 423293 | 5087520 | people are now changing their minds whether they want samples here, we are moving into a better area to get suction samples | |
| 8 | 50 | 1526 | 211 | 423759 | 5086554 | beginning suction sampling, new fix is x=3759 y=6555 | SS-j1_sed
_R495-4 |
| 8 | 51 | 1526 | 211 | 423759 | 5086556 | Taking sediment sample near Mkr-108 | R495-37 |
| 8 | 55 | 1526 | 212 | 423760 | 5086555 | stopping sample | |
| 8 | 58 | 1526 | 212 | 423759 | 5086555 | suction is on | SS-j4_sed
_R495-5 |
| 9 | 2 | 1526 | 211 | 423760 | 5086558 | outlet temp probe on suction sampler is working but the inlet temp probe is broken off, we think it broke off sometime before now | |
| 9 | 5 | 1526 | 213 | 423758 | 5086558 | done sampling here, going to move ship and then head over to Castle, which is 40 m SE | |
| 9 | 9 | 1500 | 15 | 423542 | 5087430 | we are now up at 150m and there is definitely a plume, lot o' particles, Dave deduces that there must be more venting going on near Mkr-108 (which we never found) than we discovered | |
| 9 | 12 | 1519 | 141 | 423542 | 5087430 | we are down right under the cage, and found the venting that we first discovered when we got here | |
| 9 | 13 | 1520 | 131 | 423790 | 5086551 | ship moving 350m at heading 141 | |
| 9 | 24 | 1522 | 131 | 423794 | 5086585 | transit to castle | photo 21 |
| 9 | 25 | 1519 | 137 | 423808 | 5086578 | going over some very think orange sediment, good fixes | |
| 9 | 28 | 1522 | 153 | 423845 | 5086531 | going over ropy sheet flow | |
| 9 | 29 | 1518 | 156 | 423848 | 5086513 | going over a long network of collapsed lobate roof | |
| 9 | 30 | 1518 | 154 | 423858 | 5086498 | good fixes | |
| 9 | 31 | 1519 | 156 | 423860 | 5086495 | no more sign of collapsed lobates, all are intact | |
| 9 | 33 | 1520 | 161 | 423878 | 5086470 | lot of collapsed lobate surfaces, held up by pillars | |
| 9 | 35 | 1519 | 159 | 423894 | 5086437 | we are 185 m away from castle | |
| 9 | 36 | 1520 | 162 | 423898 | 5086427 | beautiful skylight | photo 2 |
| 9 | 36 | 1520 | 160 | 423898 | 5086427 | Skylight with a basalt pillar supporting it | R495-38 |
| 9 | 36 | 1520 | 158 | 423904 | 5086422 | coming to the edge of a drain away area, lots of iron oxide sediment | |
| 9 | 45 | 1521 | 154 | 425173 | 5086358 | a beautiful example of a lobate crust, it looks solid but it isn't. surprise! | |
| 9 | 46 | 1518 | 98 | 424003 | 5086307 | lots of white staining on rock, there is a vent in site. we are officially at castle | |
| 9 | 47 | 1511 | 64 | 424011 | 5086310 | Castle | R495-40 |
| 9 | 47 | 1512 | 66 | 424011 | 5086310 | 4011 6310 this is a good fix | |
| 9 | 48 | 1512 | 49 | 424012 | 5086310 | photo of castle | photo 23 |
| 9 | 48 | 1512 | 55 | 425181 | 5086333 | top of castle | photo 24 |
| 9 | 48 | 1512 | 52 | 425181 | 5086333 | Edge of Castle | R495-41 |
| 9 | 49 | 1510 | 70 | 424013 | 5086310 | top of castle | photo 25 |
| 9 | 49 | 1512 | 117 | 424012 | 5086309 | top of castle | photo 26 |
| 9 | 49 | 1512 | 120 | 424012 | 5086309 | SE view of Castle | R495-43 |
| 9 | 49 | 1512 | 144 | 424012 | 5086314 | top of castle | photo 27 |
| 9 | 50 | 1514 | 151 | 424012 | 5086314 | Another view of Castle | R495-44 |
| 9 | 50 | 1513 | 158 | 424014 | 5086315 | top of castle | photo 28 |
| 9 | 50 | 1514 | 191 | 424013 | 5086315 | top of castle | photo 29 |
| 9 | 51 | 1514 | 219 | 424015 | 5086319 | top of castle | photo 30 |
| 9 | 51 | 1515 | 234 | 424003 | 5086317 | A lower portion of Castle | R495-46 |
| 9 | 51 | 1514 | 246 | 424003 | 5086317 | side of castle | photo 31 |
| 9 | 52 | 1512 | 281 | 424015 | 5086301 | Castle again | R495-47 |
| 9 | 52 | 1512 | 280 | 424015 | 5086301 | bacteria side of castle | photo 32 |
| 9 | 52 | 1513 | 220 | 424032 | 5086328 | side of castle | photo 3 and 34 |
| 9 | 54 | 1513 | 13 | 424013 | 5086305 | Castle yet again | R495-48 |
| 9 | 54 | 1514 | 12 | 424013 | 5086305 | mat side of castle | photo 35 |
| 9 | 54 | 1519 | 16 | 424013 | 5086305 | Venting area on Castle | R495-49 |
| 9 | 54 | 1520 | 20 | 424016 | 5086302 | Another view of venting at Castle | R495-50 |
| 9 | 55 | 1520 | 358 | 423982 | 5086306 | parked in front of small anhydrite structure | |
| 9 | 55 | 1520 | 3 | 424023 | 5086305 | Top of spire with venting at Castle | R495-51 |
| 9 | 56 | 1519 | 16 | 424016 | 5086310 | Protozoan mat at Castle - the blue goo | R495-52 |
| 9 | 57 | 1519 | 12 | 424001 | 5086310 | lots o' limpets and blue protozoan mat above anhydrite structure | |
| 9 | 58 | 1520 | 346 | 424002 | 5086310 | three of Craig's traps are there but are completely covered in limpets! | |
| 9 | 58 | 1520 | 345 | 424002 | 5086310 | Bacteria traps at Castle deployed in '98 | R495-53 |
| 9 | 59 | 1521 | 348 | 425181 | 5086324 | anhydrite structure | photo 36 |
| 9 | 59 | 1520 | 344 | 425299 | 5086355 | attempting to break of anhydrite structure for Steve | |
| 10 | 0 | 1520 | 348 | 425181 | 5086324 | structure fell and we may try to pick it up after we fluid sample | |
| 10 | 1 | 1520 | 345 | 425182 | 5086332 | Bacteria trap at Castle | R49-554 |
| 10 | 2 | 1520 | 348 | 423999 | 5086310 | fluid is really rushing out of the hole we made by knocking over the anhydrite structure, placing temp probe into hole | |
| 10 | 6 | 1521 | 350 | 425167 | 5086316 | Temperature probe at Castle | R495-55 |
| 10 | 7 | 1520 | 346 | 423576 | 5086341 | max temp so far of 151 C, lost coms but now it is back | |
| 10 | 10 | 1520 | 348 | 424015 | 5086303 | temp has now peaked at 175 C | |
| 10 | 12 | 1521 | 351 | 423978 | 5086313 | temp increasing up to 255 C | |
| 10 | 15 | 1521 | 349 | 424526 | 5086299 | new high is 270 | |
| 10 | 16 | 1520 | 346 | 424016 | 5086309 | starting fluid sampling at castle, t1 274 C, t2 17 5C, good fix at x= 4016 y= 6309 | HFS-4_hfl
_R495-6 |
| 10 | 19 | 1521 | 348 | 424020 | 5086309 | pump turned itself of and Dave is attempting to turn it on, which he succeeded at | |
| 10 | 20 | 1521 | 351 | 424019 | 5086310 | stopped sampling, 460 ml | |
| 10 | 22 | 1521 | 352 | 424022 | 5086227 | starting filtering for xrf | HFS-2_hfl
_R495-7 |
| 10 | 27 | 1521 | 345 | 424016 | 5086309 | Worms at Castle | R495-56 |
| 10 | 27 | 1521 | 347 | 424016 | 5086309 | sampling done at 507 ml | |
| 10 | 27 | 1521 | 347 | 424019 | 5086310 | probe nozzle appears to have crud on it, so Dave is trying to blow the flow out in reverse to clean the tip off, it appears successful | |
| 10 | 31 | 1521 | 347 | 425189 | 5086335 | starting sampling on bag 18 with filter | HFS-18_hfl
_R495-8 |
| 10 | 34 | 1521 | 350 | 423998 | 5086310 | sampling stopped, 3mins of sampling, around 375 ml | |
| 10 | 39 | 1521 | 349 | 424016 | 5086310 | gas tight fired at 10:40, starboard gas tight | gtb_hfl_R495-9 |
| 10 | 46 | 1521 | 350 | 424021 | 5086310 | getting 5 function positioned to take a Niskin | |
| 10 | 52 | 1518 | 12 | 424202 | 5086836 | Nisken collected 2m | Niskin_R495-10 |
| 10 | 55 | 1515 | 311 | 424020 | 5086309 | Steve and Bob highlight on | |
| 10 | 58 | 1513 | 162 | 424018 | 5086313 | FeOxide chimney | photo 37 |
| 10 | 58 | 1513 | 158 | 424018 | 5086313 | Castle again | R495-57 |
| 10 | 59 | 1513 | 163 | 424016 | 5086314 | Grabbed a large sulfide sample | R495-58 |
| 10 | 59 | 1513 | 164 | 425183 | 5086324 | chimney spire broken of, taken to the bottom to subsample | |
| 11 | 2 | 1517 | 243 | 423999 | 5086320 | ROPOS on the bottom near castle vent, trying to open the bag on the front of the fluid sampler with the probe. Bag is open, chimney is positioned above the bag. Pieces of the chimney are breaking off after hitting the fluid sampler and falling | SF_R495-11 |
| 11 | 15 | 1518 | 261 | 424024 | 5086318 | Moving to Flattop SE 5-10 m away. | |
| 11 | 17 | 1515 | 162 | 425505 | 5086968 | Arrived at Flattop, Mkr-N5. Look | |
| 11 | 17 | 1512 | 158 | 425184 | 5086323 | Mkr-N5, Flattop | Photo 38 |
| 11 | 24 | 1512 | 97 | 424035 | 5086306 | Attempting to collect a piece of FeO from the top of Flattop. Positioning sample over bag, opening the bag with the probe, putting FeO sample into bag. | FeO_R495-12 |
| 11 | 31 | 1512 | 80 | 424036 | 5086306 | Attempting to close the bag completely with the 5 function arm. Bag closed. | |
| 11 | 33 | 1512 | 91 | 424034 | 5086306 | Just next to Flattop there was another small FeO spire. Just about 2m away, heading west. | |
| 11 | 36 | 1512 | 31 | 424042 | 5086291 | ROPOS is moving back to the cage. | |
| 11 | 39 | 1519 | 232 | 425193 | 5086345 | ROPOS is on the bottom, starting to move toward Mkr-113. | |
| 11 | 40 | 1520 | 231 | 424006 | 5086276 | Moving over the old flow. Nav is reasonably good. | |
| 11 | 47 | 1520 | 232 | 423996 | 5086280 | good fix | |
| 11 | 49 | 1521 | 232 | 425197 | 5086271 | Partial collapse lobate area. May be young lava flow. | |
| 11 | 53 | 1523 | 236 | 423912 | 5086200 | Iron staining, a few meters back we went through the contact. | |
| 11 | 59 | 1528 | 252 | 423550 | 5086856 | Glassy flow, probably '98. | |
| 12 | 0 | 1527 | 249 | 423829 | 5086153 | Close up of jumbled lava flow, now with hydrothermal staining. Some ropy flows that are now broken up. Also lots of Fe oxyhydoxide | |
| 12 | 1 | 1526 | 253 | 423800 | 5086133 | Oxides | Photo 40 |
| 12 | 1 | 1525 | 243 | 423794 | 5086128 | The bottom | Photo 41 |
| 12 | 2 | 1524 | 243 | 423783 | 5086121 | Seeing some white mat. More white mat. Very broken up, drained out area. | |
| 12 | 3 | 1525 | 247 | 423772 | 5086111 | Lava looks like '98 flow, infiltrated with FeOxides, some more white sulfide mat. | |
| 12 | 4 | 1524 | 243 | 423756 | 5086097 | Patch of small tube worms | |
| 12 | 4 | 1524 | 243 | 423756 | 5086097 | Jumbles lava, with tube worms, and mat. | Photo 42 |
| 12 | 5 | 1526 | 248 | 423756 | 5086097 | Large ropy sheet flows, lots of FeOxide sediments, some white mat. | |
| 12 | 6 | 1525 | 246 | 423756 | 5086097 | Mat along the cracks | |
| 12 | 6 | 1526 | 248 | 423721 | 5086083 | cracks, mat and (before) we saw small tube worms. | photo 4 |
| 12 | 8 | 1527 | 246 | 423702 | 5086077 | large ropes, FeOxide sediment low temp hydrothermal deposits. | photo 45 |
| 12 | 9 | 1526 | 244 | 423684 | 5086062 | Fe deposit | photo 46 |
| 12 | 9 | 1526 | 245 | 423677 | 5086057 | Heavy FeOxide sediment | photo 47 |
| 12 | 10 | 1526 | 241 | 423671 | 5086052 | heavy FeOxide sediment on the ropy flow. | photo 48 |
| 12 | 10 | 1525 | 247 | 423671 | 5086052 | iron oxide sediment on sheet flows | R49560 |
| 12 | 10 | 1524 | 244 | 423665 | 5086047 | Mound of sheet flow, lots of FeOxide sediment, some light in color suggesting recent activity. | photo 49 |
| 12 | 11 | 1524 | 243 | 423654 | 5086038 | Over main sheet flow. | |
| 12 | 12 | 1526 | 241 | 423650 | 5086035 | Sheet flow with FeOxide. | photo 50 |
| 12 | 12 | 1525 | 242 | 423645 | 5086030 | push up area | photo 51 |
| 12 | 13 | 1524 | 245 | 423624 | 5086014 | Small collapse area. Now into a more solid lobate flow w/ drain outs. | |
| 12 | 15 | 1523 | 243 | 422920 | 5085314 | Spires in | photo 52 |
| 12 | 15 | 1522 | 244 | 423595 | 5086006 | More spires in a collapsed area. | photo 53 |
| 12 | 16 | 1524 | 245 | 423586 | 5085997 | more spires , roof collapse, in young lava. | photo 53 |
| 12 | 17 | 1523 | 246 | 423567 | 5085980 | Debris of collapsed roof material. | photo 5 |
| 12 | 17 | 1522 | 244 | 423564 | 5085977 | Floor of collapse area. | |
| 12 | 18 | 1523 | 240 | 423557 | 5085970 | Area of extensive drain out. Very broken up. | |
| 12 | 19 | 1524 | 244 | 423545 | 5085966 | Spires. | photo 56 |
| 12 | 20 | 1523 | 246 | 423534 | 5085961 | Drain out area, 4-5 meter high spires. | |
| 12 | 20 | 1524 | 243 | 423529 | 5085956 | natural bridge | photo 57 |
| 12 | 21 | 1523 | 247 | 423517 | 5085947 | lobate | photo 58 |
| 12 | 22 | 1523 | 248 | 423511 | 5085943 | Floating creature | R49561 |
| 12 | 22 | 1522 | 243 | 423511 | 5085943 | floating gelatinous creature. | photo 59 |
| 12 | 25 | 1524 | 268 | 423463 | 5085921 | photo 60 | |
| 12 | 25 | 1524 | 268 | 423456 | 5085919 | lobates | photo 61 |
| 12 | 26 | 1523 | 269 | 422789 | 5085259 | Ropy bottom | |
| 12 | 26 | 1524 | 266 | 423450 | 5085934 | white mat | |
| 12 | 26 | 1525 | 270 | 423450 | 5085934 | good fix. | |
| 12 | 27 | 1524 | 267 | 422467 | 5084937 | FeOxide sediment on pahoehoe | photo 62 |
| 12 | 28 | 1524 | 272 | 423419 | 5085909 | Tube worms. | |
| 12 | 29 | 1524 | 274 | 423409 | 5085908 | pillar with a lot of white staining | photo 62 |
| 12 | 30 | 1524 | 272 | 423405 | 5085901 | photo 64 | |
| 12 | 31 | 1523 | 267 | 423398 | 5085903 | on top with tube worms. | photo 65 |
| 12 | 32 | 1523 | 271 | 423392 | 5085906 | top surface with tube worms, bacterial mat , young lava, glassy. | photo 6 |
| 12 | 33 | 1524 | 281 | 423392 | 5085906 | Dead Tube worms near Mkr 13 | R495-62 |
| 12 | 33 | 1522 | 273 | 423386 | 5085900 | Spire covered with mat underneath. | |
| 12 | 34 | 1524 | 270 | 423394 | 5085879 | Dead tube worms near Mkr-113 | R495-63 |
| 12 | 34 | 1524 | 275 | 423386 | 5085895 | Lots of stressed or dead worms, spread out in a crack. | |
| 12 | 36 | 1523 | 268 | 423596 | 5085540 | Highlights on. | |
| 12 | 36 | 1524 | 270 | 423388 | 5085889 | Area of warm water. | |
| 12 | 36 | 1524 | 265 | 423388 | 5085889 | Tube worms. some alive near Mkr-113 | R49565 |
| 12 | 37 | 1523 | 267 | 422765 | 5085284 | Looking for Mkr-113 | |
| 12 | 39 | 1524 | 2 | 423357 | 5085901 | spire structure, looks like a house. | photo 676 |
| 12 | 39 | 1524 | 360 | 423364 | 5085906 | Window in lava wall | R49566 |
| 12 | 39 | 1525 | 356 | 423365 | 5085908 | same another view | photo 68 |
| 12 | 40 | 1525 | 358 | 423364 | 5085910 | interior of column | photo 69 |
| 12 | 40 | 1524 | 360 | 423368 | 5085912 | tube worms | photo 70 |
| 12 | 40 | 1523 | 358 | 423370 | 5085914 | same as above, worms | photo 71 |
| 12 | 41 | 1523 | 2 | 423372 | 5085919 | warm water w/ new worms. | |
| 12 | 41 | 1523 | 5 | 423372 | 5085926 | arrive Mkr-13 | |
| 12 | 41 | 1523 | 4 | 423372 | 5085926 | same | photo 72 |
| 12 | 41 | 1525 | 3 | 423372 | 5085926 | same marker 113 | photos73 and 74 |
| 12 | 42 | 1525 | 358 | 423372 | 5085930 | Marker 113 | R495-67 |
| 12 | 42 | 1526 | 9 | 423371 | 5085930 | Bottom of 113 | photo 76 |
| 12 | 43 | 1524 | 343 | 423372 | 5085931 | Mkr-113 | photo 7 |
| 12 | 44 | 1524 | 334 | 423374 | 5085933 | Looking around at Mkr-113. | |
| 12 | 48 | 1525 | 209 | 423373 | 5085933 | bacteria traps Mkr-113 | R495-68 |
| 12 | 49 | 1525 | 204 | 423372 | 5085933 | Really good fixes. | |
| 12 | 50 | 1525 | 215 | 423373 | 5085932 | Bacteria traps mkr 113 | R495-69 |
| 12 | 50 | 1525 | 212 | 423373 | 5085932 | Looking for a good spot to sample. | |
| 12 | 50 | 1524 | 285 | 423372 | 5085932 | New VCR tapes. | |
| 12 | 54 | 1524 | 222 | 423378 | 5085928 | Still looking for a good spot to collect fluid samples. | |
| 12 | 58 | 1525 | 38 | 423370 | 5085933 | Returned to Mkr-113 looking for a spot to sample water, up on top near a bacterial trap and tube worm area with good flow of water. | |
| 13 | 0 | 1525 | 41 | 423370 | 5085933 | Looking for a max temp with the probe. good fixes. | |
| 13 | 3 | 1525 | 43 | 423370 | 5085932 | bag 1 w/filter max t 20.3, T1 just lost coms. Pump is still on. Temp is now 21. T2=1.8 Starting again 13:07 | HFS-11_dfl _R495-13 |
| 13 | 8 | 1525 | 43 | 423368 | 5085932 | good fix. Still sampling bag w/filter. R495-13 | |
| 13 | 11 | 1525 | 40 | 422723 | 5085298 | Stopping max T was 2.6 C. | |
| 13 | 12 | 1525 | 41 | 423370 | 5085933 | bacteria traps. mkr 113 | R495-70 |
| 13 | 13 | 1525 | 44 | 423369 | 5085933 | gas tight port side starting 13:14 done 13:14 | gtb_dfl_R495-14 |
| 13 | 15 | 1525 | 40 | 423370 | 5085932 | 13:15 unfiltered bag 16 on 13:16:32, temp is going up 0.27 C, stopping 13:21:4 | HFS-16_dfl _R495-15 |
| 13 | 22 | 1525 | 40 | 422430 | 5084988 | ROPOS is lifting off in order to reposition for suction sampling. | |
| 13 | 25 | 1525 | 100 | 423371 | 5085933 | ROPOS has settled back down. Starting to flush the suction sampler. | |
| 13 | 29 | 1525 | 91 | 423371 | 5085933 | Suction sampler bottle 1 begin sampling mat near bacterial traps for Moyer. 13:32 stopping bottle 1 is full. | SS-1_mat
_R495-16 |
| 13 | 32 | 1525 | 90 | 423370 | 5085933 | Continuing to sample same mat area. pump on 13:34 . Hose has become disconnected from end of suction probe. 13:35 | SS-2_mat
_R495-17 |
| 13 | 36 | 1525 | 90 | 423377 | 5085939 | broken hose of slurp sampler | R495-71 |
| 13 | 36 | 1525 | 87 | 423376 | 5085917 | Laser dot on sampled area | R495-72 |
| 13 | 45 | 1525 | 57 | 423371 | 5085934 | Mkr-113 with filamentous bacteria growing on it | R495-73 |
| 13 | 46 | 1525 | 37 | 422726 | 5085300 | ROPOS is repositioning to pick up MTR | |
| 13 | 48 | 1527 | 48 | 423370 | 5085931 | photo of tube worms on the MTR line | photo |
| 13 | 48 | 1527 | 54 | 423370 | 5085931 | tube worms growing on line | R495-74 |
| 13 | 49 | 1527 | 43 | 423369 | 5085930 | Releasing SS, 5 function arm is picking up the VEMCO (no #) MTR. | |
| 13 | 51 | 1527 | 32 | 423369 | 5085930 | Vemco MTR with tube worms on the line. Opening bag to deposit sample. Stuffing MTR and worms into the bag. | MTR+bio
_R495-18 |
| 14 | 8 | 1527 | 29 | 423369 | 5085931 | Opening the bag with the 5 function arm while bringing the lose, floating end of the MTR line in with the HFS probe. Not able to secure the line yet. | |
| 14 | 11 | 1527 | 29 | 422726 | 5085299 | holding the MTR line and the suction sampler handle in the 5 function arm. This secures the line. | |
| 14 | 13 | 1527 | 32 | 423370 | 5085931 | The bottom at the base of Mkr-113. | photo |
| 14 | 13 | 1526 | 350 | 423373 | 5085932 | More bacteria traps, mkr 113 | R495-75 |
| 14 | 13 | 1526 | 6 | 423370 | 5085930 | ROPOS is moving. Doing a survey of the base of Mkr-113. Looking for bacteria traps. | |
| 14 | 14 | 1527 | 5 | 423372 | 5085931 | bacteria traps. | photo |
| 14 | 15 | 1526 | 328 | 423370 | 5085929 | Area around bacteria traps at mkr 113 | R495-76 |
| 14 | 15 | 1526 | 308 | 423372 | 5085933 | base of Mkr-113. | photo |
| 14 | 15 | 1526 | 304 | 423372 | 5085933 | bacteria traps mkr-113 | R495-77 |
| 14 | 15 | 1524 | 356 | 423372 | 5085933 | ROPOS is moving back to the cage. | |
| 14 | 21 | 1524 | 186 | 423358 | 5085855 | Leaving Mkr-113 | Photo 82 |
| 14 | 22 | 1523 | 184 | 423355 | 5085850 | Sub heading 185. | |
| 14 | 22 | 1522 | 175 | 423360 | 5085853 | lot of diffuse venting on bottom , lots of staining. | photo 83 |
| 14 | 24 | 1523 | 181 | 422792 | 5085287 | White staining, diffuse venting. | photo 84 |
| 14 | 24 | 1523 | 177 | 423363 | 5085843 | Highlights on. | |
| 14 | 24 | 1524 | 182 | 423348 | 5085843 | Lobate flow, with staining, mats and worms, | |
| 14 | 25 | 1525 | 179 | 423380 | 5085860 | staining white, active vent sites. | photo 85 |
| 14 | 26 | 1524 | 175 | 422602 | 5085096 | White staining and Fe staining. Diffuse venting has been mostly continuous so far. | photo 86 |
| 14 | 26 | 1524 | 174 | 422396 | 5084985 | Lateral back to the right. No more staining. | |
| 14 | 27 | 1525 | 170 | 423361 | 5085803 | lobates, not active for venting. | photo 87 |
| 14 | 29 | 1525 | 182 | 423366 | 5085788 |