Sea Log: 2024-03-07
Choppy, windy, swelly day so most of the science stuff got cancelled (not safe to put instruments into the water, especially off the stern). Spent a good portion of the afternoon sitting outside on the picnic table with Madison chatting and watching in awe as some truly big waves rolled past us. Have I mentioned recently that the ocean is wild?1
Dinner had a phenomenal curry tofu soup2 and then Gabe and I finished our cribbage rounds for the tournament.3
Our bongo net ended up going in tonight; lots of slime and goo, a repeat of last night. We also got a bunch more salps–most exciting was the big one that was roughly 9 inches long!!4 Pretty sure it’s a solitary cyclosalpa, but maybe not since the one we found is MUCH larger than the typical sizes they’re found in. Also, if you look close, the brown splotch in the upper left of the salp is a fecal pellet5 that it’s about to expel.
Sea fun fact of the day: All the lights are on inside the ship at all times. According to an engineer this is maybe to give some strain on the engines/generators?? But more likely it’s important to have the lights on so that in the event of an emergency, if you’re rushing into somewhere you don’t have to fret about also turning on the lights.7
Footnotes
Because it is.↩︎
Thanks Richard & Jim!↩︎
I won first game, he won second, and then he won by a hair in the third. Very funnily and statistically unlikely: my first hand had all 4 jacks and his last hand had 3 jacks and a 5. Some big points happening!↩︎
aka roughly 22.86cm because science uses the metric system↩︎
lol poop!↩︎
aka rubber mats so our plates don’t slide clear off the table↩︎
Truthfully, I haven’t the faintest idea where the light switches are in our lab. Or where they are in any of the common spaces. So good thing we don’t turn them off.↩︎