As expected, sea condition today was too rough to put the Shinkai submersible in the water, and even too rough to tow a deep-sea camera behind the boat that would have allowed us to have an idea of the fauna living on the oldest seamount of the chain we are exploring now. Instead we spend the day cruising on top of the seamount to get accurate informations on the depth and get better bathymetric maps of the seamount and its surroundings. Hopefully tomorrow we can dive…
On a day like that, researchers use this time to process remaining samples (fixing the samples, taking pictures, maybe starting some measurements). We also enjoy to recover a few missing sleeping hours and get everything ready for the next dive and be totally efficient when there is finally some action. And finally if the seasickness spares us, we work on our computer like a normal day at the office.
Because there is only very limited internet on the ship and my colleagues are patiently waiting, I will not upload pictures tonight, but I will post some tomorrow. Hopefully it will be pictures of samples...
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