We made it to our first coring site on schedule yesterday morning, but the high-res seismic data revealed that the geology was not what we had hoped. The site was in the middle of a MTD (mass transport deposit) -- not what we want to core.
So, on to plan B: continue along the planned survey route through the night and pick new coring sites in the am. This, of course, meant that most of us got to sleep last night. Cleverson and Renato, however, stayed up all night -- standing watch over the survey.
The coring team (some members seen below) was not at all unhappy to get the news that the first deployment would happen in daylight.
So far, so good. Plan B seems to have worked. We found several good coring prospects, picked the best site for a "Full Monty" suite of deployments, and are on our way to the new first site.
The instruments sit at the ready in the morning mist:
Now we wait again -- as we steam toward our new objective. Patience, patience, patience . . .
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