Journals from
aboard the Expedition to recover the black smoker.
The expedition is taking place from June 26 to July
23,1998: |
 | By Myles Gordon, AMNH Director of Education.
July 16, 1998
We are moving off station... |
| By Myles Gordon, AMNH Director of Education.
July 13, 1998
We have been at sea now for many days... |
| By Myles Gordon, AMNH
Director of Education.
July 9, 1998
We have reached the point in this cruise where ... the particular days ... have lost their meaning... |
| By Ed Mathez, AMNH Curator of
Earth and Planetary Sciences.
July 8, 1998
Today we pulled another huge rock off the sea floor... |
| By Omi Escayg, New York Teacher.
July 6, 1998
Profile of a Merchant Mariner... |
| By Myles Gordon, AMNH Director of Education.
July 6, 1998
There was a lull in the action on the ocean floor for a number of days... |
| By Denise Unger, New York Teacher.
July 5, 1998
Life without light. Is this really possible?... |
| By Ed Mathez, AMNH Curator of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
July 5, 1998
Eureka! We did it!... |
| By Omi Escayg, New York Teacher.
July 5, 1998
Profile of an Electronics Engineering Technologist... |
| By Dave Randle, New York Teacher.
July 3, 1998
A wise person once said, Wisdom comes from experience, and experience comes from making mistakes... |
| By Omi Escayg, New York Teacher.
July 3, 1998
Mike Rebitt was born in Victoria, British Columbia... |
| By Ed Mathez, AMNH Curator of
Earth and Planetary Sciences.
July 2, 1998
We are about to lower the line basket, the basket containing 8,000 meters of line, to the ocean floor... |
| By Myles Gordon, AMNH
Director of Education.
July 2, 1998
Days on the Thompson are filled with ups and downs... |
| By Ed Mathez, AMNH Curator of
Earth and Planetary Sciences.
July 1, 1998
After two frustrating days of one little problem after another, ROPOS was finally put in the water again today... |
| By Myles Gordon, AMNH
Director of Education.
June 30, 1998
Last night ended at about 1:30 AM with an odd food chain of sorts... |
| By Myles Gordon, AMNH
Director of Education.
June 29, 1998
Home base for many of us on the ship is the Main Lab... |
| By Ed Mathez, AMNH Curator of
Earth and Planetary Sciences.
June 29, 1998
We arrived yesterday at our position over the Juan de Fuca ridge... |
| By Myles Gordon, AMNH
Director of Education.
June 28, 1998
What a trip! What an adventure!... |
| By Ingrid R. Buntschuh, New
York Teacher.
June 28, 1998
Part of living a full life is pushing through the fear of the unknown... |
| By Ed Mathez, AMNH Curator of
Earth and Planetary Sciences.
June 27, 1998
We are off...away from the dock, under the Seattle bridges... |
