Strategy Bay de Petit Goave
Posted by heartland chris on March 02, 2010 at 13:59:18:

The others have an interesting strategy to survey the Baie de Petit Goave. This is the bay just west of the Peninsula that disappeared in a slide during the quake, that caused a tsunami that killed 7 people. The captain of the Endeavor does not want to go into this bay without us checking first whether the nautical chart is still any good, given that the sea floor has moved around so much in the area (west of the tree that was drowned 50 m off of the new shoreline). So, we have a zodiac and some portable depth sounders or whatever, so the ship will survey off the mouth of the bay while the zodiac buzzes around surveying the bay. If safe, the ship will the come into bay and survey. This may be a place where the main fault could have ruptured the sea floor.

The shore group lead by Paul Mann (and another lead by Eric Calais?) have found substantial vertical motions with dying corals now exposed, etc (some of this was on the Haiti special on Discovery Channel a couple weeks ago).

OK, back to work; excuse the typos but I can't spend too much time on these, and don't feel like typing in WORD and pasting here for some reason.
Chris


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