Lat - 55' 40.50S
Long - 42'45.55W
Depth - 3118m
Area - Central South Scotia Sea
We're now in the Central South Scotia Sea, working mainly under the geology project. It's been a pretty boring few days, so we decided today we would put down a trawl on a seamount we've been calling Starfish Seamount (because it looks like a starfish!). Unfortunately the trawl came up with an awful lot of rocks and nicely glued together with mud. Eeww. Oh well, actually with so many people it really didn't take too long to sort through, and there weren't that many intact animals - some really nice huge purple sea cucumbers, some mushed up starfish, but that was about it. Oh, except Kate - I got you a zooarcid fishy, little baby looking one.
Other than that we're all doing well, we've actually put together an excellent group out here, everyone is getting along, having fun and working hard, it's been great. Sometimes it's hard to tell if your group is going to be a good one or not, as people definitely react to being at sea differently, but we choose well, they're a great bunch.
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love the update! we are missing you! and bella cannot wait to give uncle S his post-surgery box to open (which he knows about because she doesn't quite get the concept of a surprise.)
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