NOAA Ship Thomas JeffersonDeepwater Horizon Response Effort

Situation Report: June 4th, 2010

Friday: Investigating area approximately 5 Nm SW of incident location•Tied into Gunter data by repeating a few acoustic and CTD measurements•Collecting acoustic and CTD data in the vicinity of high fluorometer readings and in an area with numerous natural methane seeps•Two deep water CTD casts to a depth of 1200 m and one shallow cast to 80 m, plus 47casts with multisensor free fall fish to 100 m •Plans tomorrow to work inside 5NM line if cleared by SIMOPS•2000 local position 28-38.26 N 88-27.13 W

Operational Highlights:

Incident Location

TJ @ 2000

Operations Area