Sunday - Day 1
Jul. 22nd, 2007 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishMy roommate's Teacher-at-Sea log: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/2007/eubanks/pdf/eubanks_log1.pdf
(this is a lot more detailed, as it's part of her requirements for participating - she's also posing questions to her students. She also is a much better photographer than I.)
I don't know if I'll do this every day, as research cruises are often pretty much the same from day to day, but the high points anyway.
After not much sleep, John and I left at about 4:45 to get to San Diego by 7:15. When we got there, it turned out the ship was not leaving until nine. We annoyed the security guard by driving right up to the gate, not even seeing the stop sign which was a few yards up the hill. Oh well.
The Jordan's wheelhouse.
Across the bay to Coronado, and past that, downtown San Diego...
Btw, the Jordan's home dock is also home to FLIP, a one-of-a-kind research vessel you may have seen on science shows.
Leave we did at the designated time, and steamed out of San Diego Harbor, past two submarines and several buoys full of sea lions.
After a lecture on safety and what we would be doing, we finally set the longlline about 13:30, southwest of Catalina Island and south of San Clemente - my job was unclipping hooks from the barrels and handing them to the people baiting.
Heading to San Clemente...
Barrels of hook droppers, waiting to be baited and clipped to the longline...
After a 4 hour soak - during which I tried not to fall asleep after making up my upper bunk (after twisting myself into a pretzel making it up, I simply had to lie down in it for awhile, but I was afraid I wouldn't wake up in time), we caught two makos, one blue shark and one pelagic stingray, kept for someone who is studying them.
After dinner, there was what looked like a swift flying around the boat; a black bird with long, crescent-shaped wings and a white spot on its rump. I chatted with Chico, the head deckhand about it and about the hummingbird that once visited the MAKO in the middle of Santa Monica Bay, while we were doing similar cruises. It was foggy and it must have gotten lost. It flew up and started checking out a bright pink tuna feather on one of the poles on the upper deck. One of the deckhands took pity on the poor bird; he mixed up some sugar water and dipped the lure into it so the little guy could get a little energy to fly back to shore. Later, the skipper yelled, "You did WHAT to my lure?!"
After the haul, they used a CTD for recording temperature/salinity at depth, and we were then going to go squid fishing for Humboldt squid. Which I'd love to do but I'm just too tired. Tomorrow night, maybe.
(this is a lot more detailed, as it's part of her requirements for participating - she's also posing questions to her students. She also is a much better photographer than I.)
I don't know if I'll do this every day, as research cruises are often pretty much the same from day to day, but the high points anyway.
After not much sleep, John and I left at about 4:45 to get to San Diego by 7:15. When we got there, it turned out the ship was not leaving until nine. We annoyed the security guard by driving right up to the gate, not even seeing the stop sign which was a few yards up the hill. Oh well.
The Jordan's wheelhouse.
Across the bay to Coronado, and past that, downtown San Diego...
Btw, the Jordan's home dock is also home to FLIP, a one-of-a-kind research vessel you may have seen on science shows.
Leave we did at the designated time, and steamed out of San Diego Harbor, past two submarines and several buoys full of sea lions.
After a lecture on safety and what we would be doing, we finally set the longlline about 13:30, southwest of Catalina Island and south of San Clemente - my job was unclipping hooks from the barrels and handing them to the people baiting.
Heading to San Clemente...
Barrels of hook droppers, waiting to be baited and clipped to the longline...
After a 4 hour soak - during which I tried not to fall asleep after making up my upper bunk (after twisting myself into a pretzel making it up, I simply had to lie down in it for awhile, but I was afraid I wouldn't wake up in time), we caught two makos, one blue shark and one pelagic stingray, kept for someone who is studying them.
After dinner, there was what looked like a swift flying around the boat; a black bird with long, crescent-shaped wings and a white spot on its rump. I chatted with Chico, the head deckhand about it and about the hummingbird that once visited the MAKO in the middle of Santa Monica Bay, while we were doing similar cruises. It was foggy and it must have gotten lost. It flew up and started checking out a bright pink tuna feather on one of the poles on the upper deck. One of the deckhands took pity on the poor bird; he mixed up some sugar water and dipped the lure into it so the little guy could get a little energy to fly back to shore. Later, the skipper yelled, "You did WHAT to my lure?!"
After the haul, they used a CTD for recording temperature/salinity at depth, and we were then going to go squid fishing for Humboldt squid. Which I'd love to do but I'm just too tired. Tomorrow night, maybe.
Lat: | Long: | Mako | Blue | Pelagic Stingray | ||
Afternoon set : | 863 | 32.807°N | 117.83°W | 2 | 2 | 1 |
