R/V Melville
On the third
day we find ourselves still in transit, in amazingly blue water
and hot weather. Our location is latitude 23 degrees N and longitude113
degrees W. Today the science crew learned about the tectonics
of our study area from Debbie Smith, and later learned from Clare
Williams about how magnetic anomalies will help us find rifts
in the equatorial region (see photo). The crew caught the first
fish of the trip (see photo): a 2 ft long mahi-mahi. By Carrie
Donnelly and Jenny McGuire
