Thanks Tim - interesting info! Question for you - have you been able to correlate the time code on the HD video with the SD out on YouTube (i.e. is the time code the same?). I've been wondering if it's possible to put together a photo mosaic of the whole area in the Niku VI ROV video. While it won't be geographically accurate, it should be fairly representational of the geographic location, and therefore possible for a photo interpreter to correlate it with the sonar scan. Anyway, I don't want to work with the HD stuff (for fear of swamping my hard drive). If I'm able to correlate with what you're looking at it may be simpler to glue at this together. v/r JB
John,
From 2010 there is only the 8:33 minute High Definition Video, from which you have taken your captures (starts 13:35:20 and ends 13:43:52). I know of no comparable Standard Definition Video from 2010.
From 2012, the Standard Definition Video runs 12:36, starting at 13:10:47 and ending at 13:23:17. The 2012 High Definition Video which I received runs 15:33, starting at 13:07:00 and ending at 13:22:33. However the time stamps are NOT synched between the two: as best I can make out, the SD time stamp is 1:31 (one minute and 31 seconds) behind the HD time stamp. Also, the SD and HD fields of vision were different: the SD could be swiveled (to "scout around"), unlike the HD.
Further complicating the issue, I remember when Ric released the High Definition of 2012 to everybody else, it was said to have no time stamp at all. I offered to share my copy with anyone else just so that we would all be reading from the same page.
As there has been some movement of matter in the downhill direction between 2010 and 2012, I don't think it will be possible to exactly correlate the two. Many objects evident in 2010 can no longer be seen in the 2012, no matter what definition. What I perceive to be the "cockpit" area is still further downhill than the rest of the debris.