We find ourselves at the southern entrance to the Prince Gustav Channel, which was once covered by a portion of the Larsen Ice Shelf, and more recently the Prince Gustav Ice Shelf. We are conducting a series of bottom video surveys in order to assess the nature of seafloor moraines which mark the rafting of debris beneath the Prince Gustav Ice Shelf. The Gould is making a channel in four to six feet of new sea ice through which we will tow a bottom video system, in order to image the seafloor and assess debris trails of the former ice shelf and the dumping of debris during its break up in 1996. This channel will run due northeast from the Antarctic Peninsula shore toward James Ross Island. The channel is oriented in order to run the video sled across the former flow path of the ice shelf as determined by satellite images taken prior to its collapse.
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