First Image: Although without my analytical tools, the cloud masked open sea water on Laptev Sea approximates the area I have drawn in blue line (clouds are not fully opaque).Second Image: A brief look at the temperature charts for Wednesday at higher resolution shows areas also over ice at over +10C (patches of yellow hues in two areas). This suggest me a melting rate of some 15 cm per day in a sunny weather. Fournier Triangulation (averaging) has smoothened out and reduced the size of yellow patches in the sea of green in image processing.Thanks for all condolences received due to our recent fatal accident at our 100ft research vessel R/V Urraca where our expedition photographer fell to her death recently. We have been utterly devastated for a fatal accident relating to our operation of oceanographic research vessel "Urraca" that claimed the life of Lauren McEntire Spence. It appears that Lauren tripped on the deck of the boat then felling into the sea and hitting her head hard. Her fall was observed but her falling unconscious while falling contributed to her drowning injuries. She was quickly recovered but died from her injuries and a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lung infection. Lauren was married to Dr. Edward Lee Spence, the current President of Sea Research Society. Marine operations are always hazardous and one could never expect such a premature death for our expedition photographer Lauren who was in her best years.This is our second crew loss incident we have had in 45 years of operations since 1973. (R/V Urraca was previously operated by the Smithsonian Institution before its transfer to Sea Research Society operations.)