We’ve arrived back at Challenger Plateau to finish surveying the sites we had to move on from last week due to weather. The waves are too high to put the gear down, which brings a break from operations.
There’s still a lot to do, from cataloguing what we’ve found so far, to planning the next phase of the journey.
So this pause is a welcome break for our DropCam operator John who’s been working huge hours for several days running. Here he is on an operations day, getting the DropCam ready.
One of our scientists, Paige, spends the day analysing some of the footage we have already – including trying to get to the bottom of the ‘mystery fish’ we saw in the deep.
Check it out in the footage below – the little orange guy.
Analysing the footage is a huge job, and will continue after the charter to determine what species we’ve found where. Paige has been plugging away at it in between operations, but with dives of up to four hours there’s a lot to go through.
