Oceana | Protecting the World's Oceans

Author: Will Race
Date: September 3, 2010

Oceana Latitude --  The Oceana crew has officially become used to the life aquatic. After a hard day yesterday and being on the boat for a little over a week, heavy-eyed heads hit the pillows hard last night.  Going to sleep everyone thought they had seen everything.

Wrong, this morning we awoke to yet another surprise--still silence. No waves, no wind and no clouds. The crew began work today under a clear sky. It is the first time in this part of the expedition that the seas have been favorable.

Author: Will Race
Date: September 1, 2010

Oceana Latitude —  Rest and recuperation was the theme for today. After five days of exhausting work the Oceana team ventured back out to the Deepwater Horizon mooring sites to continue retrieval.

Due to time restrictions and rough weather, only half the moorings from the originally planned experiment were set. Yet, this is science so things are not always as planned. The zones with the highest level of importance have been covered and other areas of interest will have to wait.

Author: Will Race
Date: August 30, 2010

Oceana Latitude--morning came fast today, by 6:30am the entire crew was on deck ready to deploy the first mooring. However, instead of a beautiful sunrise the Oceana team began its day to an unnerving thunder and lighting show.

Eight was the lucky number today. The eight man crew successfully deployed eight moorings today. The complete process from preparation of anchors and lines, to deploying the anchor, marking the line, and clipping on test strips went smoothly and efficiently.

Author: Will Race
Date: August 28, 2010

This morning started off with a bang, literately. The hull of the Oceana Latitude was smashing hard through the waves and acted as an early morning alarm clock for the Oceana crew. Awaking to an ocean landscape of a mixture of offshore oilrigs, whitecaps and an unforgiving sky, I thought to myself, this must be the beginning of an exciting day.