After the research cruise in which Celeste helped Nancy Rabalais and her team measure the largest Dead Zone yet, news agencies are taking notice. Yesterday I dove with Nancy and Ben Acker of LUMCON at a site in the heart of the Dead Zone, station C6C (featured in many previous posts). Nancy maintains multiple SONDEs on a leg of the oil platform to measure dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity, and other important parameters. Our purpose yesterday was to search for a SONDE lost on a previous dive and introduce the CBS News team to the region of hypoxia. We also wound up providing footage for the CBS News crew to use in their segment that you can watch HERE. I shot the underwater footage. We’ll be posting the full video later. Here are some shots from the R/V Acadiana yesterday.

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Station C6C under stormy skies.
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Captain Carl and CBS News Producer Warren Serink look on as we approach C6C.
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Through a condensation-laden window, you can just see Nancy interviewing with Jeff Glor on the left while cameraman Max Stacy gets additional footage.
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On the drive out, rain on the western horizon.

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