Dive 2926 Starboard Observer Marv Lilley
0934 On the bottom, X-5043, Y-5759, depth 2198 alt 11, looks like we have landed in a hole. I see a talus slope out my window.
0946 Still trimming the sub, X-5070, Y-5783, depth 2200, alt 5.
0949 X-5071, Y-5783, headed for the west wall.
0952 X-5047, Y-5799, hdg 260, lobates out my window but I can barely see the bottom.
0953 Sediment dusted lobates, driving with only the TI light, lots of whitish particulate in the water column. Occasional pillows.
0954 Unfractured lobates, X-5008, Y-5800, hdg 268, depth 2211, alt 4.
0955 X-4981, Y-5800, See 3 small dead sulfides, maybe 1m tall. Water is pretty murky.
0956:12 Large dead sulfide. X-4953, Y-5798, lots of sulfide, much hydrothermal sediment, going up a sulfide slope, lots of sulfide boulders lying around.
1005 X-4906, Y-5775, hdg 278, still driving to hit wall.
1006:35 Large dead sulfide. X-4906, Y-5751.
1008:40 Have been crossing a very large dead sulfide deposit and have just now crossed out onto basalt.
1009 Talus out my window.
1010:34 Going up talus slope. Is this the wall?
1011:50 Nope, wasn't the wall. Crossed onto a flat lobate covered area, must not have been the wall.
1013 X-4788, Y-5761, going up another talus slope.
1014:38 An OBS tripod in front of us. This is the west wall for sure. X-4782, Y-5768, depth 2173, alt 5.
1017:28 X-4843, Y-5765, large chunk of old sulfide lying around, appear to have toppled downslope. We are moving downslope, I see a lobate bench below, then nothing but the abyss.
1018:49 X-4813, Y-5813, hdg 020, headed toward Salut, I see an upthrust block of jumbled sheet flow.
1020:34 Flat broken sheet flow with a few lobates.
1023:30 X-4239, Y-4740, At an active sulfide with tubeworms and bacterial mat Large aamount of old sulfide rubble in the area.
1038 We have found a marker and are manuvering to read it. Tube worm field out the stbd. window
1045:11 We have marker Arrow in the 3-chip. X-4856, Y-5885. This is Salut.
1051 We are prepairing to sample the flange at the southern end of Salut but Jerry is spinning wildly at the moment. We eventually take the port and inner port majors and both gas tights on the manifold at this flange and leave marker 5A just below the flange. Temp was 338. This site is about 5 m south of the Arrow marker. X-4852, Y-5876. We also sampled a small piece of flange below the site where we took water. We measured 4 deg on top and 50 deg beneath the flange.
1208:50 We are circling Salut on the port side for John to get a look. I see a talus slope out my window.
1212 X-4239, Y-4760, we are still circling Salut, I see the wall.
1213 We are headed north to find Puffer.
1215:48 X-4848, Y-5902, big sulfide blocks at the base of the wall.
1216 X-4850, Y-5902, more large sulfide chunks at the base of the wall.
1231 Delaney is tinkling.
1241 We have found Puffer and are looking around.
1308 Sampling at Puffer. We took gas tights 5and 7; majors 10 and 12. X-4867, Y- 5991, hdg 173, depth 2193, alt, 5. Temp was 379.5-380.6 We deployed marker AE at this site on Puffer.
1356 Out of power, weights away.