Well mates let me get you up to speed since my last post. We have left the port of Bermuda and are currently in the middle of the Atlantic on our way to the Rainbow Massif we are studying on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. I have been on a 12hr shift rotation starting from mid-night until Noon. For the first four hours I work on deck with the gunners and marine techs. The next eight I am in the main lab with the science party. Basically we have been trying to get the seismic guns ready for deployment. There is alot of work that has to go into to these huge expensive pieces of equipment. Ok I am going to keep this simple; what you are looking at in the photo below are seismic air cannons or guns (used for multi-channel seismic surveys) that are attached to big floatation devices. The coiled rope (green) are specif lengths that keep all the guns at the desired depth (9 meters). These are towed behind the boat as well as 6 kms of streamers (hydrophones) that recieve the returned signal produced by the air cannons after it has reflected/refracted through the subsurface and back towards the sea surface. We are also running multibeam and …
OK thats enough information for one day, if I tell you everything now there will be no suspense and anticipation for the next one.