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We are currently in an inter-canyon area, between Veatch and XX Canyons

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and we are headed to a target depth of about 1,468 meters.

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We detected water column anomalies or active gas coming out of the seafloor

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in the water column data collected from multibeam mapping.

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And so we are going to the site to ground truth these plumes

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and hopefully find chemosynthetic communities.

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Right here we’re coming up on a huge patch of mussels.

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This is going to be one of the biggest patches of mussels that we’ve seen so far.

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We’re almost right there on top of what we had as a seep target based upon the multibeam

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mapping that was done last night.

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We are off the northeastern U.S. coast,

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surveying the continental slope in an area

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known as the U.S. canyons region.

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We’ve found a large mussel bed community and this is the

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first time we’re viewing this area so far in the deep sea.

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We’re getting a zoom in on where we are and you can see

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tons of bubbles coming off underneath that ledge.

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Excellent.

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There is hydrate under there, see that little snow cone underneath of there, that ledge.

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So this is great video, this is really nice.

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I think this is, see, … I think this is an icy coating, I think this is hydrate.

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See that bubble right there?

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This is awesome.

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I agree with you Carol, this looks a lot icier than…

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Oh, that is awesome!

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Oh my gosh, this white stuff in the water column, now this could be very significant,

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this may actually be hydrates forming in the water column.

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You see these white flecks coming up?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That’s very …

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And it’s very possible that we’re forming hydrate in the water column as it comes up.

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This is about within eight meters of where we had the target

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identified based upon the multibeam mapping.

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And we’re at a depth of 418 meters and we are viewing active venting from the seafloor.

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There’s a great view of some of the bubbles coming up on the Seirios view.

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It looks like this is going to conclude our dive today, the 12th of July.

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The time is 1538.

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Our bottom depth is 1,413 meters.

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We’ve been along the continental slope of the northeastern U.S.

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coast and we targeted a few different sites that we mapped last night

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and confirmed water column anomalies.

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We landed down and we came across patches of mussels and a fairly large mussel bed.

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One of the bigger ones, well, the biggest mussel bed that we’ve seen leg anyways.

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