Category: Student Blog 2021

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

August  – The Expedition End is Near for Leg 1: I can’t believe that I just had my last shift of the

August 8: One Last Shift Tonight, I’m staying awake much later than my usual bedtime for the sole purpose of soaking it

August 3: Arrived at Axial Base Once we arrived at Axial Base yesterday, events rapidly spun into high gear. With all the

August 7-8: Pacific Animals Finally, a clear day! With the fog gone and the sun out, it feels weird looking into the

August 7: I Never Want to Leave When I applied to VISIONS’21 I anticipated being seasick, or being tired from shifts in