Gulf of Mexico 2012 Expedition LIVE--04/13/2012

Still on go here:
[link to oceanexplorer.noaa.gov]


[link to www.youtube.com]


What Are You Seeing?

You are watching Stream 3 from the Okeanos Explorer as it investigates the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico. This feed is typically the Hypack or Sonar computer during remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dives and is used for replaying dive highlights during multibeam operations. During ROV recovery, this feed will switch to the live camera from the Little Hercules ROV. This feed may also switch to the wire camera on the fantail for launch/recovery. The embedded audio on this feed is typically the ROV engineers party line on the right channel and the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer line and telecon on the left channel.

The dive schedule is pretty consistent - the ROV is launched and in the water each day around 8:00 am EDT and brought back to the surface around 5:00 pm EDT. Depending on the depth of the dive, it can take anywhere from 45 minutes to more than three hours to get to the bottom (or surface), so sometimes all you will see is blue water when you first click the videos. If so, either it is early morning and the Little Herc is descending to bottom or it is afternoon and the ROV is ascending. Mapping operations occur when the ROV is not in the water and you can watch the seafloor being mapped in real time.

Tune in often to catch all the action aboard America's Ship for Ocean Exploration!


Still on go here:
[link to oceanexplorer.noaa.gov]







Another great event starts in late april:

[link to www.ouramazingplanet.com]

his month, you can take a ride to a mysterious world of tube worms, strange fish and impressive crustaceans that dwell deep in the Gulf of Mexico, all without ever leaving your desk.

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expedition is at sea through the end of April, sending deep-diving robots to explore the deep-sea habitats in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

A live feed from a camera affixed to the remotely operated vehicle Little Hercules is available on the Web, complete with the commentary of the scientists who are directing the ROV from the research vessel Okeanos Explorer.