Hello from somewhere
in the Pacific Ocean!! Today is day three of the cruise and so far it
has been a blast, a ton of work of course but very exciting and fun
at the same time. So far we have calibrated all the equipment, dropped a couple nets out, and sorted the contents of the net tows. We
have come across numerous types of organisms; the first net tow gave
us many medusa, jellies, and ctenophores along with a couple fish, some
copepods and a krill or two. However, the net tow that came up
yesterday provided us with many different organisms that were very
foreign to me, we found some ctenophores, baby crabs, amphipods (some
monster amphipods tossed in there), chaetognaths (which terrify me..
if you do not know what they are please google them… then cry about
it), some large krill, a bunch of medium and small krill, more fish,
about a dozen little squid and a baby octopus! Needless to say it
was a pretty exciting catch for me haha.
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| Product of the second net tow. |
Now on to the most exciting
part of the trip for me… WE SAW A BLUE SHARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Blue shark sighted 3 meters off the bow of the boat! VERY EXCITING |
Ah one
of my all-time favourite sharks! I had previously told one of the
other scientists how badly I wanted to see whales/sharks/birds out on
the water and he came rushing down early yesterday afternoon and told
me to follow him to the bow of the boat, so I did and there off the
bow was a 6 foot(ish) blue shark! Not even 3 meters away from the
boat! Then we saw a few more further out either fighting or something
who knows. But it was amazing. Well that’s all for now! Talk to you
guys again soon (:
Stephanie Mincieli
(AKA Blondie)
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