Our first morning on the high seas. We started today at 6:30 with our very first swim call. After a refreshing and invigorating dip, we all dried off and had a very excellent breakfast. This was all an especially good morning after pushing through our mid night anchor watches (we are all required to get up in the middle of the night for an hour to keep watch over the boat, we do things like check our bearings to make sure we are not drifting, monitor weather, and generally make sure everyone else is safe). We also began trawling today and caught several different kinds of sea creatures in our net.
We caught several kinds of crabs, multiple sea stars, and many many comb jellyfish (we estimate about 450 in total) from the Long Island Sound. Several of us even ate comb jellies...alive! We split into our watches and began our new jobs of navigating, steering, and keeping watch off the bow. After several hard hours we relaxed with a nice muster (a nightly meeting of all on deck), but then the waters became rough and we had to go down below and bond as a group until lights out.
P.S. OMG! We caught a sea star named Jimmy and Johnny Depp hasn't shown up yet.
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7/22 by Meghan S
"Today has been AWESOME as usual!
We started out with a power point on whale adaptations and then we headed to the computer lab to learn about gel electrophoresis, a lab we are going to do on Thursday.
Next we headed to lunch. After lunch, we learned about whale falls. Whale falls are when dead whales float to the bottom of the sea floor and provide food to hundreds of different organisms. We got to research different things that are related to whale fall with a partner and presented what we learned.
We watched a Blue Planet segment on the deep and now we are in study hall.
Around 4, we are heading to the pool to learn about whale behaviours and then we will enjoy dinner.
Tomorrow, we are heading to the AQUARIUM! It is going to be so much fun! It be you wish you were here right now don't ya!
Ta ta for now"
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