Day 15 R/V Point Sur

There were two otter trawls today. The first one was to 750 m and the other one was to 500 m. Some snail fish were caught, another hatchet fish, and shrimp.









Hagfish were caught in the first trawl. Those will be shipped to Hawaii. Hopefully they will survive the trip.



Jason was sad. He was hoping to get a certain type of rat tail in the trawl, but he didn’t get any.



He was able to do some cross-sectioning though. Jason has to cross section the fish to see how much red muscle and gel a fish has.



While we were waiting for the trawl, a sea lion was swimming.



This was the last respirometer recovery, and it had a fish inside one chamber.





A pod of dolphins were cruising along side the ship. I tried really hard to get video of them jumping out of the water. Hopefully you’ll be able to see some of them in the video.



The weather changed quickly. Luckily we headed back in today.



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