Day: August 11, 2017

Today is the second full day we’ve been at sea. After boarding the ship on the 8th, we sat at the dock in Newport for a night, and waited to embark until the following morning at 0900. The weather has been mostly calm and predominately fog

The distractions seem to disappear when at sea and there is a more than usual amount of face to face interactions and conversations with people from around the world.

The main objective during my watch shift yesterday was the deployment of the instrument MOSQUITO

A little past midnight, I got the chance to watch the multibeam sonar survey the transects in Southern Hydrate Ridge. From the multibeam, I was able to see

These environments are just so majestic and every time, every single time, you take a look at them you realize how you’re only a small part of an infinite undiscovered universe.