The sea is not really calming down and today, again, the dive was cancelled. Well if deep-sea research would be easy, would it still be that exciting?At least we could launch the deep tow camera, a kind of big frame with a few cameras and sensors fixed on it that we tow behind the ship. It was an interesting experience and at least we could get some data from our targeted seamount. Indeed, if tomorrow we have our last chance for a submersible dive, we are very far from New Zealand and we must leave the seamounts area tonight. If the weather is good, or at least a bit better, we will make a dive on the same hydrothermal vent site as 3 days ago when we had to abort the dive because of rough sea. At the beginning of the cruise we prayed for the gods of the sea to give us good conditions, maybe we should ask the volcano gods a bit of help too.
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| The deep tow system |
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| Some unlucky flying fish who landed on the wrong place... |
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| Because the deep tow system is connected to the ship via a cable and an optic fibre, we can have high resolution live images of the sea bottom. |
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