Silhouetted image of the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer bridge.

Silhouetted image of the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer bridge. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, INDEX-SATAL 2010. Download larger version (jpg, 3.8 MB).

Dive Cancelled
July 7, 2010

At the end of yesterday's dive, we discovered a tiny bit of moisture in the housing of the camera sled high-definition camera. In order to ensure we took care of the problem properly, we canceled the planned dive and conducted a multibeam survey in the far eastern portion of our approved geographic area operations. Our Mapping Team collected data over a large area of seafloor >4000m.