The Lord of the Rings

We are very, very busy today! I had lots of ideas for the blog today but my computer is giving my trouble and have spent all morning trying to fix it, it is now downloading some packages and thus I have a few minutes to spare here…

Not much time to look out of the windows, just enough to catch a glimpse of a very, very, very grey and rainy day with largish white-crested waves (not large enough for you, though, Jed). Luckily the wind is from the stern and we ride them without much rolling.  Just unlike the HUGE oil tanker we came across this morning, 250 m long and taking the waves on the prow. Ouch!

 Roughing it out

We had a bit of balance last night, which sent a few things flying. This was my cue to get rid of the cursed chairs in my cabin, which have given me a few sleepless nights in storms past. With help from Javier I secured a few things and expelled several others, the chairs among them. Had to settle with keeping them in the acoustics lab, rather tan chuck them over the rail though...

The housemartins (those were the birdies, shame on me) still flying about, AND ONE HAS COME INTO THE BRIDGE!!! It is ringed, so birders on watch, please help us to find the ringer! We know we have at least two birder readers, one active, the other dormant. Juan, who does not talk much but knows a fair bit on birds, has caught it very deftly.

Unfortunately we all in the bridge at the time of recapture are past 25 and we have two interpretations of the ring:

ZG4901	ZG9101
NIDENSEB	HADENSEE
GERMANIA	GERMANIA

See the potos attached. Coordinates at recapture were 45º36’74N – 024º59’07W.

Ring 1_3

Ring 2_3

 Ring 3_3

Winged officer on watch 

Juan reading the ring

Today is being a very special day: the students at Igrexa-Candeán school asked us if we could throw a bottle with a message, and just did this as well:

We added this to the original letter

 

 Edu right before launching

We are at 45º36’11N – 025º03’42W and at 2977 m depth, approaching the Mid Atlantic Ridge…