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Status Report August 16 - We found something!

Status Report August 16
Bruce
Things are looking good. Art’s email says it all. I have censored certain parts for obvious reasons. Of significances: The depth is well over 2000 ft which means that we will need a much heavier ROV (about 25,000 lbs) to actually determine what happened. That will not happen this summer.
Art
On our 1000 [...]

Status Report August 15th

Status Report August 15th
A number of good photos, still no sub.

Processed data from the search lines

Map of completed survey lines up to the 14th

A rare view of Kiska with all its beauty

Kiska Volcano emerges from the fog with a smoking (steaming?)
summit.

Art Wright, Survey Leader watching winch wire

Anji and Gromyko awaiting word on a potential target

Amazing [...]

Website Statistics update

Visitor Stats for ussgrunion.com from 8/7/2006 - 8/13/2006: 657 visitors.
By way of explaination: A visit is when someone ‘visits’ or looks at the site. A pageview is each page looked at. Last week the site had 657 visit and 2,168 page views. So the average visitor looked at three pages in the [...]

Status Report August 14

Status Report August 14
Pete:
Some more photos:

Red Bluffs of Kiska

Kiska

Analyzing Bottom Data
Art:
Line 100-117 area now has complete coverage south of the hill.
We are running E-W lines from north of slope to top of slope in sloppy weather with 25 kt winds from west and 8-10 foot seas. Current is two plus kts against us. But data is good.
Analysis [...]

Status Report #2 Aug 13

Status Report #2 Aug 13
Art
We have completed an initial search with 96 percent coverage between lines 100 and 117 (to the top of the slope at the north) without a prominent sub-sized target. When analysis on this area is completed later today, we will re-run some lines to ensure we have 200% coverage in the [...]