I am afraid that it is getting easier and easier for me to sleep in until 11 in the morning. I don't know how I will adjust to my normal teaching schedule, which has me waking up at 5:45 in the morning; it will be a big and sleepy adjustment. The news from the night shift was that 2 rock dredges were completed using the new net and 1 box dredge. The 3 dredges collected a variety of fossilized corals that were mixed in with the sediment from the seafloor. Dredged Sediment
The coral parts were picked out of this sediment.
Coral skeletons were picked out of this sediment.
These are the various corals that were picked out of the sediment for dredge #30.
Rhian and Laura decided that their work was completed on this seamount and it was time for one more deep CTD. The multibeam sonar images revealed a deeper section in the seafloor that went down to 4,405 meters. Again, we tied on Styrofoam cups to the CTD. This time we added a bonus Styrofoam object, a big Styrofoam head! It was really fun to check out the cups and head when they came back into the ship.
The cups and head were just taken out of the net, and we all helped take out the paper and dry them off.
Currently we are headed to Sars Seamount.