ROV Dive S0461 - Isla Cerralvo Scarp

Join RV Falkor with ROV SuBastian on the first dive of FK210922 in the Gulf of California. Dive S0461 is just east of Isla Cerralvo in the Eastern continental margin of the Baja California microplate.. Aboard the R/V Falkor are scientists and students representing the Universidad Autonóma de Baja California (UABC), and Centro de Investigación Científica y Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE). This group of young scientists and grad students integrate the science party on Leg 1 (tectonics and mapping), of the expedition FK210922 “Interdisciplinary Study of the Pescadero Basin). Today we will be diving at approximately 900 m deep on the eastern flank of an NE-SW oriented fault scarp. We aim both to test that all systems in the ROV are ready to go for Legs 2 and 3, and also to collect a few samples of the rocks and sediments that make up this fault scarp.