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Good evening, Earthlings. It is SO late! Today has been an unusual day. Because of the bad forecast yesterday we agreed on meeting at 7 to decide if we could fish or not. After a quick evaluation of the situation the Captain decided we could have a go and we took one haul in shallow waters. However, the weather worsened while we were at it and we had to call it a day. So here we are, waiting for the storm to pass. It hasn’t been too bad. We have had more rolling when hauling in the gear, actually. We have seen a Portuguese trawler, the Coimbra, the stern to the wind, and we have also seen one of the small boats from St John’s fishing for crabs. They must have had a rough day but then it was not worth to travel one whole day to land and avoid this storm that it’s going to take less than that to pass.    

Nair waiting for the CTD to come back

An easy day for the biologists on board. The crew has been busy, at least part of them: the kitchen, the bridge and the unfortunate souls that had their shift this morning. And Nair, who had a CTD cast and then had to type in some more data. And me, working all day on the survey report. 

Luis, David, Paco and Alberto hauling in the gear

 

 

 

 

 

 

The trawl about to arrive

There was water for everybody

At dinner time somebody was commenting that it is more fun when we are fishing, but do not worry because we will be back to our routine tomorrow. In the bridge we have already decided how to proceed and we have plan A, B and even C.

To fill the void here you have some artwork from Jose Luis’ team. They claim group authorship and insist that they are better than the other team.

Cuttlefish

Black redfish

See you tomorrow…