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Data of field activity C-1-94-NC in Ocean area west of the
Farallon Islands, CA from 07/28/1994 to 08/03/1994
Menlo Park, CA
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United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park,
California,United States Navy,Gulf of the Farallones National
Marine Sanctuary. Chief Scientist: Herman Karl. Data
(underwatertelevision) of field activity C-1-94-NC in Ocean
area west of the Farallon Islands, CA from 07/28/1994 to
08/03/1994,
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Notes -
Data is archived at US Navy, San Bruno and
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
Metadata in USGS database 9/7/94
(following is modified from 7/29/94 USGS Bulletin & Aug 1994 GD News)
During World War II, the Farallones were shot at for gunnery practice and a
lot of military garbage ended up being dumped around them. Later, about 70,000
barrels of low-level radioactive waste was dumped there too.
Thursday, 7/28/94, Herman Karl joined the Laney Chouest (support vessel for
the DSV Sea Cliff) at Alameda Naval Air Station. He will be using the DSV
Sea Cliff to look for the barrels of radioactive waste west of the Farallon
Islands. This is being done to ground-truth our interpretations of barrels
on the sidescan sonar images. We have provided sidescan images and locations
of possible barrels to guide the dive and ROV searches. The cruise is
sponsored by and in cooperation with the U.S. Navy. Representatives from the
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and NOAA's Hazardous
Materials Response Branch are also participating as part of our cooperative
research project in the marine sanctuary. The second priority of the cruise
is to dive in Pioneer Canyon, and the third priority is to dive on what might
be the USS Independence -- an aircraft carrier blasted and irradiated during
the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests and then scuttled over the continental
slope west of the Farallon Islands. So far, our interpretations of the SeaMarc
IA side scan have been right on, and we've directed the submersible to targets
(condition of barrels range from virtually intact to completely disintegrated),
and a dive in Pioneer Canyon has allowed biologists to see lifestyles of
organizms previously known only from dead specimens. Rough weather has
prevented us from verifying a large target thought to be the USS Independence,
but we'll keep trying.
DSV Sea Cliff and Advanced Tethered Vehicle (ATV) were used.
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Ocean area west of the Farallon Islands, CA
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Ocean area west of the Farallon Islands, CA
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North American Datum of 1983
Geodetic Reference System 80
6378137
298.257
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