Day 13 R/V Point Sur

Today was bird day for some reason. I felt like we were in the Snow White fairy tale with all the birds flying everywhere.









The 1:30 am trawl came up around 7:30. Again, it had a couple of skates and many fish. Look at the spines on the skate.









The respirometer was recovered today. Unfortunately, there weren’t any fish in the chambers. It was deployed about an hour later and will be recovered tomorrow. There are only a few days left of this research cruise. Hopefully there will be fish in the chambers for the next deployments.

The camera was recovered today. Do you remember what type of bait was used this time? Rat tail fish was baited to the anchor to test whether or not rat tail fish would come around. Dr. Drazen believes that rat tail fish will not come in an area that a dead rat tail is occupying. The 3000 m camera pictures did not show any rat tail fish. It mostly had crabs, a skate, and other fish such as Pachycara.







The camera was deployed later to 1000 m with the normal bait, milk fish. Tomorrow it will be recovered. I’m looking forward to watch will be pictured at 1000 m.

The night otter trawl started at 5:00 and was back up around 11:00. It was another muddy mess.











It was the day of interesting non-marine life creatures on board the ship. One little bird had a butterfly in its mouth, and we even had a dragonfly catching a ride.





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