Day 11 R/V Point Sur

The otter trawl net was awesome!! Richie really did an amazing job with fixing it. Thanks so much Richie!! It was brought up this morning around 7:30.



Do you remember what this crab is called? It’s a squat lobster. This one is smaller than the other crab from yesterday. In the second photo, the fish was dissected. It still had something in its stomach. Can you see what it is? It’s a squat lobster!!





We always make sure to measure all the fish that has been caught. If a fish needs to be preserved, then formalin is mixed together. Formalin is a solution used to preserve the fish, keep it in tact.







Formalin needed to be made today for one particular fish. It is a type of Pachycara, but it wasn’t able to be located in any books. Dr. Drazen and John believe that this might be a new species. Dr. Drazen is e-mailing another scientist who specializes in Pachycara.



During the trawls, someone needs to keep the data. The data collector records the current depth, how much wire is out of the winch, the latitude, the longitude, and the speed of the ship every 20-30 minutes. Jack is the data collector for one of today’s trawls. He did such a wonderful job. :)





Today, the crew had a fire drill. This is like when we have fire drills in school. It allows them to practice the correct fire drill procedures.





The past few days have been a little bumpy out here at sea, but today, wow it was crazy calm. I couldn’t believe how smooth it was. The ocean looked like silk.



The second trawl of the day was also very successful and very muddy. We caught a lot of fish as well as a sea urchin and unfortunately marine debris.











The fish tub needed to be cleaned because it was way too muddy. Katie got just a little muddy.





We don’t know what this is. Pictures were taken and will be sent to other scientists to see if they know what it could be. It was really slimy!!







There will be another early morning, 1:30 am, trawl and then the respirometer, camera, and longline will all be deployed tomorrow.

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