Pangaea Exploration

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Cruising

by panexplore_u6q245 September 22, 2014 in Blog, Uncategorized, Pangaea, legacy Comments are Disabled

Highlights of the trip so far have involved dolphins; Steph giving an excellent talk about her research with laptop slides on deck and dolphins arching in the background; and bioluminescent dolphins lighting up a dark night like waterborne fireworks. From our perspective, in many ways so out of our element, that there are creatures so at home in the sea seems amazing. Amazing and, inevitably, bittersweet to watch them leaping and sparkling given what we know about how we are changing their world.

Smooth Sailin’

by panexplore_u6q245 May 23, 2014 in legacy, Uncategorized, Blog, Pangaea Comments are Disabled

The calm, clear skies made trawl deployment and recovery very easy. The weather, in conjunction with the ease of deployment, was welcomed by the very wary crew! The only ‘problem’ we had at one point was a pesky Cahow trying to investigate the equipent and whether or not he could make a tasty meal out of it.

Stars, Satellites, and Sea Lights

by panexplore_u6q245 May 22, 2014 in legacy, Pangaea, Blog, Uncategorized Comments are Disabled

As our eyes began to adjust even more to the night sky, we were able to pick out more and more aspects that only being on the ocean in the dead of night would present. The waves crashed against the bow, and we created a wake as we travelled further south. It excited some of the smallest marine organisms called plankton, causing them to illuminate and dance in the sea beneath us.