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Category Archives: 2010 Gulf Cruise

Gulf Cruise 2010 – Collecting

For every hour spent underwater documenting and collecting at least three times as many hours are spent prepping and analyzing the collections and documentation.  Each morning a crowd awaits the arrival of Jason and Medea back on the surface.  They are ready with buckets and boxes.  Ready to transport their specimens to the shipboard labs.  [...]

Gulf Cruise – GulfOil Shipwreck

US Minerals Management, now known as Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) began a program in 1996 known as Rigs to Reefs.  The program encourages scientists from various disciplines to work together in understanding how shipwrecks become reefs and reefs contribute to the formation of shipwreck sites.  In the following two articles [...]

Gulf Cruise Day 2

A good night’s sleep and now ready to go.  Jason and Medea came up at 8am and then the crew uses the next 8 hours to ready the ROVs for the next dive while everyone else busily takes apart their experiments and then rebuilds their kit to go on the next dive.  A good example [...]

Gulf Cruise – Day 1

Archaeological Crew arrives for the second leg of the cruise

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