Good onya suba. How deep is it going and how long will it be down there? I hope it has lights!
It's a shakedown run, so not sure what is actually happening. They'll make a call soon, because there is a small window available due to naval operations.Tomorrow is a full run to 700+ meters.
Hopefully today it'll make it to the bottom. It's at around 100m now.
EDIT: FYI, I'm not on R/V Falkor right now...just relaying information. I should be living on her for a while in about month though 
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It's a shakedown run, so not sure what is actually happening. They'll make a call soon, because there is a small window available due to naval operations.Tomorrow is a full run to 700+ meters.
Hopefully today it'll make it to the bottom. It's at around 100m now.
It looks to be still on the surface to me
Refresh your feed?It's definitely not on the surface.EDIT: Returning to surface. Needs more weight.Not going back down till tomorrow.
give us the heads up when its going down again. i want to see the krakken (i am seriously going to watch it)
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Refresh your feed?It's definitely not on the surface.EDIT: Returning to surface. Needs more weight.Not going back down till tomorrow.
I eventually got it to work, but only on the Youtube site
Hopefully will be in the water before 11.
The bathymetry reveals some pretty dramatic subsea terrain.
just about hitting the 1 year anniversary of MH370 at end of this week. RIP
saw a show on it last night, and one of the interesting and positive things out of a tragedy is the bathymetry fugro is getting over a never before seen area (in such detail). truly amazing stuff - similar res to suba's post above.
if you are interested, there is also some good stuff being done using subsea gliders along all sorts of aus coastline now
anfog.ecm.uwa.edu.au/index.php
the web page sucks on my computer, but there are some good updates on fb when they hit interesting times!
can't see cscale suba - what is the depth of that ravine? (ie water depth from surface, but also the height of the cliff faces to the relatively flat bottom)
About 700 meters depth.Heading down again. A few years ago a automated submersible was lost in the same area from a different group, good chance we'll see it and hopefully recover it.
Bah! Already seen some chimeras swimming around (cartilaginous fish somewhat closely related to sharks).
The mission is to collect corals...it's painstakingly slow.
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Bah! Already seen some chimeras swimming around (cartilaginous fish somewhat closely related to sharks).
The mission is to collect corals...it's painstakingly slow.
What was the jelly looking fish a few minutes ago
A soft cnidarian I am pretty sure.
They're really only after hard calcified corals right now.
That's way more exciting than that job at the Ments Suba. Now I can see why you didn't bother with all those boring perfect waves.....
At 133,16 there is a human face carved into the rock, you my friend have found atlantis. (Seriously there's a face)
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That's way more exciting than that job at the Ments Suba. Now I can see why you didn't bother with all those boring perfect waves.....
This isn't my job ;) Working on R/V Falkor will be more of a side gig to pad my pockets slightly while I continue on my own work
....smart ass 
I had a good chuckle.
Suba what are we looking at really Is that mostly underwater land slides Also are all the different colours different rock or minerals?
The fish were really cool and i was amazed at the straight lines and angles that i saw. Not really what you would expect for natural underwater terrain
As i said it was like watching grass grow, but i couldn't look away
You're looking at the canyon carved out by the old swan river that was formed back when the water level was so low you could walk to Rotto (we're talking about it being formed before the dinosaurs were wiped out about 65mya). There are some REALLY steep sections, as in vertical, and the ROV today was checking out a particular section about about 650m depth. There is a load of sediment and 'marine snow' that falls down onto the rock so the run today started at the base of an underwater sand dune, which they followed to the vertical section of the cliff.
Different colour can be from different mineral composition, but it's just as likely that it is due to biological processes, either in the past or current. A section hosting a colony of anerobic bacteria for example might cause an increased rate of oxidation changing the chemical make up of the surface it's growing on, therefore changing the way it reflect light (ie, different colour). The footage wasn't exactly clear enough today to tell. Would love them to drill out some core samples. However it's a pretty solid bet that any horizontal stratified changes in colour are from the layering of different materials over a long geological age, no different than how you see stratified layers in canyons on land (ie: Kalbarri, Grand Canyon etc etc).
Oh, as a side note, those two laser beams are exactly 10 cm apart.
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You're looking at the canyon carved out by the old swan river that was formed back when the water level was so low you could walk to Rotto (we're talking about it being formed before the dinosaurs were wiped out about 65mya). There are some REALLY steep sections, as in vertical, and the ROV today was checking out a particular section about about 650m depth. There is a load of sediment and 'marine snow' that falls down onto the rock so the run today started at the base of an underwater sand dune, which they followed to the vertical section of the cliff.
Different colour can be from different mineral composition, but it's just as likely that it is due to biological processes, either in the past or current. A section hosting a colony of anerobic bacteria for example might cause an increased rate of oxidation changing the chemical make up of the surface it's growing on, therefore changing the way it reflect light (ie, different colour). The footage wasn't exactly clear enough today to tell. Would love them to drill out some core samples. However it's a pretty solid bet that any horizontal stratified changes in colour are from the layering of different materials over a long geological age, no different than how you see stratified layers in canyons on land (ie: Kalbarri, Grand Canyon etc etc).
Oh, as a side note, those two laser beams are exactly 10 cm apart.
But the further away they get, the closer they get
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You're looking at the canyon carved out by the old swan river that was formed back when the water level was so low you could walk to Rotto (we're talking about it being formed before the dinosaurs were wiped out about 65mya). There are some REALLY steep sections, as in vertical, and the ROV today was checking out a particular section about about 650m depth. There is a load of sediment and 'marine snow' that falls down onto the rock so the run today started at the base of an underwater sand dune, which they followed to the vertical section of the cliff.
Different colour can be from different mineral composition, but it's just as likely that it is due to biological processes, either in the past or current. A section hosting a colony of anerobic bacteria for example might cause an increased rate of oxidation changing the chemical make up of the surface it's growing on, therefore changing the way it reflect light (ie, different colour). The footage wasn't exactly clear enough today to tell. Would love them to drill out some core samples. However it's a pretty solid bet that any horizontal stratified changes in colour are from the layering of different materials over a long geological age, no different than how you see stratified layers in canyons on land (ie: Kalbarri, Grand Canyon etc etc).
Oh, as a side note, those two laser beams are exactly 10 cm apart.
Thanks for that. I understand the Perth Canyon. I was just curious on the rock colours and the sand.
I understand they are looking for Corals? Are they trying to find something particular
Is this mission anything to do with getting or stopping deep water drilling in the Trench
Sorry one more, the laser beams are 10 cm apart at the point if impact on the rock face If so that really through out my perception of scale..
Perhaps the lasers are parallel and it is camera perspective that makes it appear they close in on each other?
