
Andrew Paley Blog Leg 3
August 19-20: Learning the Knot Trade at Sea And with a bang we once again steam out of Newport towards Slope Base

August 19-20: Learning the Knot Trade at Sea And with a bang we once again steam out of Newport towards Slope Base

By Katie Gonzalez – Guest Blog It has been an exciting two weeks aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson since the Visions’21

It was under sunny skies and with much excitement that the R/V Thompson began its journey out to Primary Node PN1B to

August 13: Early Mornings I never thought I would say this, but I’m starting to really enjoy getting up at 3am. I

August 14: Anemone Cleaning If I had to use 2 words to describe my most recent shift, it’d be ANENOME MASSACRE! We

August 14-15: Busiest of Days These past two days have been my busiest of all the cruise, but they’ve also been some

August 14: Shearing the Sheep The first encounter that I had with the MJ01C junction box, colloquially known as “the sheep”, was

August 14: Sketches Aboard the R/V Thompson I love it when we’re doing a dive and everyone pauses operations to take pics

August 18: Hard to Believe we are Back in Port We arrived back in port yesterday, hard to believe it’s been a

Under sunny skies, the R/V Thompson pulled into the NOAA dock in Newport, Oregon the afternoon of August 8, marking the end