OSNAP Cruise Log
Grand Finale!
Sorry for the delay in blog posts. Ever since we started heading for the Bight Fracture Zone, I’ve been busy with the onboard work, and it’s been quasi rough. That…
Read MoreMy Shampoo Bottle Finally Fell Over!
Well, it finally happened. The unusually fine weather we had for nearly three weeks came to an end last night as a moderately strong low pressure system swept by us.…
Read MoreDisappointment
Not the greatest day today. I had been hoping to deploy another of my sound source moorings, but at the last minute it didn’t work out. Since we added this…
Read MoreScientists Helping Each Other
Late last night, we finished our second transect along our part of the OSNAP line. At the cruise outset, we transited from west to east (from off the coast of…
Read MoreDeath by Needle Gun
I finally climbed into my bunk this morning at 5 AM, after 20 hours without sleep. There was a break in the RAFOS float deployments—a chance to get a little…
Read MoreIt All Comes Down to This
We’ve just started the busiest portion of this cruise for the RAFOS float program. Today we have released the first 2 of the 10 deep floats that will sink to…
Read MoreInvesting for the Long Term
On Saturday, we reached the eastern-most point of this expedition, just a few 10s of miles off the western coast of Scotland. We could almost hear the bagpipes ! Our Scottish…
Read MoreJaws Goes to Sea
One Ocean Insight blog reader remarked recently that he found it so funny that there was an oceanographer that used Jaws! I had never made that connection myself, perhaps because…
Read MoreA Rare “Sight” : A Man on an Island
We are slowly getting closer to the Scottish coast, the eastern end of our “line”. We have just 2 or 3 more moorings to deploy before we turn back west…
Read MoreNo weekends at sea!
I took the weekend off from blogging, but that doesn’t mean that science stopped on Saturday or Sunday. Our work continues almost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.…
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