08/20/03

PLANKTON NET DATA

	Date:	08/20/03
	Time:	5:28 - 5:50 am
	Latitude/Longitude:	Starting lat/long: 33° 23.5 minutes N 76° 48.5 minutes W
	Ocean Depth:	282 ft
	Depth of Equipment:	1-4 ft
	Water Temperature at Equipment Depth:	28.5° C
	Wind Speed and Direction:	4.4 knots S/SE
	Conditions:	0-3 ft seas, partly cloudy sky

Equipment Used: Plankton net

Description of Catch: About 1 cup of tiny krill and three small fish

MORNING SUB DIVE

	Date:	08/20/03
	Time:	10:00 - 11:20 am
	Latitude/Longitude:	33°, 30.18 minutes N 76°, 56.8 minutes W
	Ocean Depth:	237 ft
	Depth of Equipment:	237 ft
	Water Temperature at Equipment Depth:	19.6° C
	Wind Speed and Direction:	3 knots, N
	Conditions:	1 ft seas, mostly sunny

Equipment Used: Submarine Johnson Sea-Link

Description of Catch: light pink coral, good video footage of hard bottom
coral community

AFTERNOON DATA LOG

	Date:	08/20/03
	Time:	3:00 - 3:20 pm
	Latitude/Longitude:	33°, 24.7 minutes N 77°, 05.0 minutes W
	Ocean Depth:	161 ft
	Depth of Equipment:	At surface
	Water Temperature at Equipment Depth:	28.4° C
	Wind Speed and Direction:	7.1 knots, S/SE
	Conditions:	Flat seas, patchy sun and rain

Equipment Used: Dip nets, hook and line

Description of Catch: 21 pound dolphin fish, several hundred miniscule shrimp (we get them by shaking the sargassum, and later found them in our hair, on our clothes, and in our shoes), 2 pipefish, a few filefish, a few nudibranchs that look like sargassum and two amazingly beautiful blue, white and silver nudibranchs.

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