Diary

R/V Pelagia Cruise BIOFUN – Diary

22 November	Sunday
BIOFUN stands for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, an EU & different National Science Foundations financed research program being conducted by a consortium… Read more…

21 November	Saturday
Saturday the big day for MOVE finally arrived. This was going to be the first long-term deployment after years of more or less successful testing. Read more…

20 November	Friday
A Spanish sailor once told me that the grammatical gender of the word sea was masculine, so, "el mar" in Spanish. However, he said at sea sailors refer to the sea… Read more…

18 November	Wednesday
After a night multi-beaming around the shallow station, we steamed back to the mid station about 35 miles south of Menorca. Read more…

17 November	Tuesday
At the 1900 meter station, a few early birds "beeped up" the ALBEX Lander before breakfast. After finishing our breakfast we went up to the bridge to spot the Lander… Read more…

15 November	Sunday
Yes, it's November and this morning I got up again with the ray of the sun in my eyes: another warm day!! Immediately I thought about a typical November morning in Italy… Read more…

14 November	Saturday
This morning we arrived at the middle depth, 1900 meter, station after a night of steaming from the deep, 3000 meter, station. Read more…

12 November	Thursday
Around 06h50, I could see a sunny sky from the window of my cabin and I could imagine the warm temperature outside, contrasting with the cold inside the room… Read more…