http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream.html

Live feeds and commentary from a sub that is going on jaunts.

From 5 May:

“Dive 15: Enrique Guyot
ROV Deep Discoverer has been deployed and is currently en route to the seafloor. Today’s dive will start ~2,260m deep on Enrique Guyot (a flat-topped seamount) to explore for high density communities of deep-sea corals and sponges and to characterize habitats on manganese encrusted seafloor on one of the presumed oldest seamounts on the Pacific plate. Our apologies for the continuing video problems – we are waiting for a spare part that will arrive tomorrow to hopefully fix this!”

Camera 3 has interesting audio. Currently “ROV two zero metres. ROV one zero metres …”

mollwollfumble said:

From 5 May:

“Dive 15: Enrique Guyot
ROV Deep Discoverer has been deployed and is currently en route to the seafloor. Today’s dive will start ~2,260m deep on Enrique Guyot (a flat-topped seamount) to explore for high density communities of deep-sea corals and sponges and to characterize habitats on manganese encrusted seafloor on one of the presumed oldest seamounts on the Pacific plate. Our apologies for the continuing video problems – we are waiting for a spare part that will arrive tomorrow to hopefully fix this!”

Camera 3 has interesting audio. Currently “ROV two zero metres. ROV one zero metres …”

Now it’s on the surface interesting video on Camera 3 as well.

For s_s’s comprehension and others I will comment that being exonerated in court means that all claims made by the complainant are defamatory, as is any further use of these allegations as having any weight by others. Please cease and desist this practice. Or do only approved people deserve to remain untarnished by fabricated evidence?

Thanks

On board ship. The ROV is the box-shaped construction (back body inside shiny metal frame) in the lower left image of Camera 3.

dv said:

Thanks

Genuinely sorry bloke. :/

mollwollfumble said:

On board ship. The ROV is the box-shaped construction (back body inside shiny metal frame) in the lower left image of Camera 3.

Um, perhaps it isn’t. Are there two ROVs? A much bigger one is being hoisted aboard now, it has obvious pair of claws and telephoto camera. Black frame with a white boxy tank-like top (fuel? buoyancy?)

mollwollfumble said:

On board ship. The ROV is the box-shaped construction (back body inside shiny metal frame) in the lower left image of Camera 3.

That smaller ROV goes by the name Sirius. It is being launched right now.

Now on to “previously recorded”. They’re almost down to Enrique Guyot, east of the Mariana Trench. Looking at animal communities to understand the potential for deep sea mining in the future. Found some beautiful corals yesterday.

mollwollfumble said:

Now on to “previously recorded”. They’re almost down to Enrique Guyot, east of the Mariana Trench. Looking at animal communities to understand the potential for deep sea mining in the future. Found some beautiful corals yesterday.

Deep sea mining sounds like it has the potential to easily go wrong and create a environmental disaster

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Now on to “previously recorded”. They’re almost down to Enrique Guyot, east of the Mariana Trench. Looking at animal communities to understand the potential for deep sea mining in the future. Found some beautiful corals yesterday.

Deep sea mining sounds like it has the potential to easily go wrong and create a environmental disaster

That’s the usual way.

“coral, crinoid, prygnoa with three polyps per whorl, brittle star, norella? macrocalif?, poliopeganz/poliopagon?, baby …?, noa coral, telaphina?, barnacle, cooling cracks, sponges, shrimp”.

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Now on to “previously recorded”. They’re almost down to Enrique Guyot, east of the Mariana Trench. Looking at animal communities to understand the potential for deep sea mining in the future. Found some beautiful corals yesterday.

Deep sea mining sounds like it has the potential to easily go wrong and create a environmental disaster

There is no place safer to mine than the deepest parts of the sea.

mollwollfumble said:

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Now on to “previously recorded”. They’re almost down to Enrique Guyot, east of the Mariana Trench. Looking at animal communities to understand the potential for deep sea mining in the future. Found some beautiful corals yesterday.

Deep sea mining sounds like it has the potential to easily go wrong and create a environmental disaster

There is no place safer to mine than the deepest parts of the sea.

Does the pressure stop pollution from escaping into the greater environment ?

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Cymek said:

Deep sea mining sounds like it has the potential to easily go wrong and create a environmental disaster

There is no place safer to mine than the deepest parts of the sea.

Does the pressure stop pollution from escaping into the greater environment ?

The dilution factor exceeds that in homeopathy.

mollwollfumble said:

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Now on to “previously recorded”. They’re almost down to Enrique Guyot, east of the Mariana Trench. Looking at animal communities to understand the potential for deep sea mining in the future. Found some beautiful corals yesterday.

Deep sea mining sounds like it has the potential to easily go wrong and create a environmental disaster

There is no place safer to mine than the deepest parts of the sea.

Safer for whom? If they mine the Black Smokers, they can destroy entire ecosystems.

“plurogorgio?, anenome, iridogorgias?, crysogorgias? chirosiras? polyopatha sponges”

“pyrostyla squat lobster, dead sponge”