The Little Hercules remotely operated vehicle captures gas bubbles from a seafloor gas seep.

The Little Hercules remotely operated vehicle captures gas bubbles from a seafloor gas seep. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Gulf of Mexico 2012. Download larger version (jpg, 1.3 MB).

Dive 03 at the Biloxi Salt Dome, Site B
April 14, 2012

Following reconnaissance dives on Thursday and Friday at two sites on the Biloxi salt dome, today we returned to a seep at site "BiloxiB" to conduct our first flux measurement experiment. A 'methane bucket' capture device was added to the front of the Little Hercules remotely operated vehicle, and an experiment conducted to attempt to estimate the amount of flux from a seep site.