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Saturday - September 14, 1996

STOP PRESS! SCIENCE MEETING TONIGHT. 1900. The Chief Scientist, Dr. H. Paul Johnson, will hold a Science Meeting tonight at 1900 PDT. (7 pm). (continued... )	a vent field covered by tube worms serves as a feeding frenzy for spider crabs - the white diamond in the middle of the picture is a marker		A Day On The Ship Part 2 The 2nd part of a story I've been working on that narrates what I did on a typical day on the Thompson. (continued...)
The Ship Is... Moving! Thompson is continually moving under the influence of wind and waves, and most people naturally associate the terms "rolling" and "pitching" with that motion. But did you know that there is much more to a ship's movement than simply those two? (continued...)	Life At A Hydrothermal Vent I am lucky enough to have visited ten or twelve hydrothermal systems in the last three and a half years. This has been in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during my 100 or so Alvin dives. So far on MaGIC we have seen one area of active venting, supporting it's own little ecosystem. Vents "live" in two different ways: geologically and biologically. Some are more spectacular than others, but all are alive and all are beautiful. (continued... )	Scientific Highlights by Mike Hutnak ABE Deployment - ABE was deployed after a one hour transit back to the Flow Area. The deployment went exceptionally well, with ABE flying a detailed near-bottom survey pattern and collecting CTD and magnetics data. (continued... )

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