Daily Log

• Thu, 31 Jul 2008 5:21 PM PDT Back to the Volcanic Axis of the Juan de Fuca Ridge Sentry Goes to the Bottom After a day of transiting from Newport and navigat... more...

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• Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:58 PM PDT Part 1: Working at a Submarine Volcano We left Newport, Oregon at about 1500h on July 29.  The calculated transit time to Axial Seam... more...

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• Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:57 PM PDT Part 2: If Science were Music.... Continued from July 30, Daily Log, Part 1: Working at a Submarine Volcano more...

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• Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:40 AM PDT A Low Key Day Transponders – Beacons of the Deep Sea The 2... more...

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• Mon, 28 Jul 2008 5:26 PM PDT Dawn of an Era SENTRY’s Third Dive The morning of the 28th ... more...

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• Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:45 PM PDT Ships Never Sleep Ships at sea never sleep. Research expeditions on the academic fleet of large research vessels in ... more...

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• Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:38 PM PDT On Hydrate Ridge The day began with the tolling of midnight, and while most of the ship slept we remapped Hydrate R... more...

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• Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:49 PM PDT Sentry's Dive a Success The calm weather holds, significantly easing deployment and recovery of equipment over the side of... more...

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• Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:06 PM PDT Sediment Channels Discovered At 0330h the Thompson arrived near the survey site for Node 1, Hydrate Ridge. The speed of the shi... more...

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• Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:15 PM PDT Steaming South • As the ship steamed south, we used the EM300 multibeam sonar to continuously map the base o... more...

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• Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:34 PM PDT Setting Sail At 9 am under gray Seattle skies, the University of Washington’s Research Vessel Thomas ... more...

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