Return to Pribilof Canyon!
3 JUNE 2009
We left Captain's Bay, Unalaska Island in the wee hours of this morning, headed directly to Pribilof Canyon. Seas were calm, with a lovely sunset. We arrived at the canyon this afternoon.
Since most of the crew were both tired and about to split up into shifts to work through the 24-hour days, we gathered in the survey room for likely the last time during the voyage.
Our destination is the mushroom-shaped canyon laying just south of the Pribilof Islands (right). The canyon edge is about 25 km south of St. George Island.
Michelle and Candace will be observing data returns from time to time to see whether backscatter is useful for interpreting the seafloor substrata or biotic features.
Weather has been picking up through the day, .
Meanwhile, BioGea Team is plotting submarine and ROV dive sites in a GIS database and reviewing underwater film footage of those sites.
