Sea Log: 2024-03-08
Not much to report from sea today. The swells and wind died down, so science was back on!1 Bongo tonight was less gooey,2 sunset was solid, and I read for a good chunk of time in the sunshine.3
Only thing of note in our nets tonight was a BIG CHONKY pyrosome that was THICCC. And well over a foot long. Somehow I missed the hubbub of when it was pulled out of the nets because I was apparently too lost in the sauce labeling petri dishes!?!?!?4
Sea fun fact(s) of the day:
Ben Franklin is my favorite founding father5 and I found out today that pre-US Constitution, during the Articles of Confederation era, there was a State of Franklin that applied for statehood, was denied, but still existed unofficially for a few years!? Though named after him, Ben himself wasn’t really a supporter of the state (he was mostly in Europe by this point of his life, acting as a diplomat for the newly independent American country).6
Pyrosome poop sinks slower than expected/slower than other zooplankton.7
Footnotes
Except for the 6-hour block of time when the Navy told us we had to get out of the particular patch of ocean for unspecified reasons.↩︎
FINALLY↩︎
American Gods is weird and I’m still not sure how to feel about it.↩︎
Labels are exciting but not that exciting?? The vacuum for sucking/filtering water must really drown out a lot more noise than I thought.↩︎
dude was WILD. Would love to have him as a dream dinner party guest if anyone was wondering.↩︎
when the State of Franklin folks wrote to him, Ben essentially said “sry i’m in europe, idk. prob anything useful you’ve already thought of. ttyl if i think of anything useful.”↩︎
stay tuned for a future paper/preso/something from Grace when she eventually publishes poop related content↩︎