 Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents
A cache by Lord British Hidden: 7/19/2002
Size:  (Micro) Difficulty:  Terrain: (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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I placed a small plastic horse, now called "Sea Horse", beside a
Hydrothermal Vent at the sea floor 2300 meters down.
Using the Russian Mir Submersibles, we placed our "Sea Horse", and
travel bug #TB31F1, at the sea floor. We were on a scientific
research mission. Good Luck Finding it! Please return it if you do!
- Richard Garriott
Amended 5/06/05:
For the record, this geocache is real, and can be found. Most years
Deep Ocean Expeditions (www.deepoceanexpeditions.com) takes people
down to these vents, and you can go too! It is done as a
cooperation between eco-tourism and extremophile research.
Scientific study of high temperature bacteria and anaerobic life
forms are subsidised by taking tourists to the vents. I have
visited them twice myself. With 10-30 people visiting a year, I
presume one will be a geocacher like me... sooner or later!
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This is the travel bug being placed originally.
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 February 6, 2004 by 47Dad47 (1428 found)
It was really cold. At first, I wasn't able to find the seahorse next to the vent or the Travel Bug. Hey, wait a minute. You still have the Travel Bug!!!! Please bring it back to the cache site. Then I saw the seahorse. Only it wasn't plastic. Each time I reached for it, it swam away. I did see on the floor, a little further away, what looked like a plastic seahorse that imploded from all the pressure.Took seawater, Left air, No log to sign, placed 47Dad47 Travel Bug.
47Dad47 [This entry was edited by 47Dad47 on Friday, February 06, 2004 at 3:44:57 PM.]
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Current Time: 2/9/2010 11:17:52 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (7:17 PM GMT)
Last Updated: 12/16/2009 3:54:00 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (11:54 PM GMT)
Rendered: From Memory
Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
