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| Results from trawls taken at Faroe Shetland Sponge Belt NCMPA |
Whilst steaming to Rosemary Bank Seamount NCMPA, we
spent some time looking at the video data collected to decide where to deploy
our drop-down camera on the second leg of the survey.
The weather forecast doesn’t look too good for the next few
days. The swell is expected to increase to 3.5m, which will be too high to operate
the chariot effectively and, more importantly, too high for Jessica to operate
effectively! It’s likely that we will lose one night of survey time due to
this, so we will need to re-evaluate our plans.
Survey Fun Fact:
Seasickness, or motion sickness, results from an imbalance
of motion detected by our ears and other internal sensors, and what we visually
perceive. Whilst travelling through the Bay of Biscay Darwin wrote to this father:
“Nobody who has only been to sea for 24
hours has a right to say, that sea-sickness is even uncomfortable. The real
misery only begins when you are so exhausted that a little exertion makes a
feeling of faintness come on” (Darwin Correspondence Project). He speaks of the relief of raisins to
address his hunger… perhaps the team on board the Scotia should give these a go
if the swell picks up!
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Written by Jessica Taylor & Emily Sym
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