Monday, October 10 – Sunday turned out to be a reeeally long day, but it ended with Champagne at breakfast around 8:00 a.m. Monday before we headed off to bed.

After the excitement of the NUI dive the day before, the day started quietly tempered by the fact that it took many hours to get back from Karasik Seamount to the region of the vent site. We had been due to begin our vent search at 9:00 a.m. Sunday, but when I got out of bed at 10:00 we were still en route and didn’t actually arrive on-site until dinnertime.

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