Sarah's objective is to locate the buoys again, and continue observations of the wildlife and habitat. She very quickly finds the first buoy, and is joined there by Dana on the bottom. Amusing as it may have been, though, we quickly learned that the second sub is a bit too disruptive when trying to conduct observations of the fish and other wildlife. This graphic is a side scan image showing a 100m by 100m portion of the transect area. Light areas are hard rock surfaces and black areas adjacent to the light areas are the sound shadows of high standing rocks.
Gray areas are fine sand habitat.
We sit in the Oceanographic lab, lit only by monitors and moonlight, Mike and Matt and I, and watch as the side scan images of the sea floor below us scroll across the computer screen and onto a seemingly endless roll of paper. We drink coffee. We eat chocolate. We listen to Paul Simon and Ella Fitzgerald. We talk, a little.