Year: 2012

The dip has been 500 metres on an arenoso-detritico background. Little different. We found many solitary corals range (Flabellum work boots), some several fishes, a stripe, sea-urchins, crinoids and many mackerel (Scomber japonicus) dead. It seems as if they had done a discard. Surface had many Petrels, especially that of Leach (Storm petrel), supposed Shearwaters … Read more

According to the weather forecast, weather going to give us a respite in the Gorringe. It may be only 2-3 days, so let’s take advantage of it. Today we are in port (Vilamoura) doing paperwork and receiving the new Portuguese scientists; and tomorrow we will depart for the Gettysburg seamount with forecast return on Sunday, … Read more

These days (29 and 30 September and 1 October) have been working in Faro, collaborating on a project on the effects of trawling on seabed coordinated by the University of the Algarve. During the three days that we have been filming funds front lighthouse, we’ve had on board two participants in the study, Paulo Jorge … Read more

All organized, we headed for Faro to collect two researchers from the University of the Algarve, you will embark for a two days against Lighthouse works, before leaving for Gorringe. We are still depending on the part, so that you can do a day here, let’s go for Gorringe and return to finish the work … Read more

The party is very variable, whenever we consult so we are different from the previous predictions. Decisions thus is quite complicated, but we have quite a few intentions to leave for Portugal. We work all day in the dry at last, after three days in port, and took the opportunity to maximize the little time … Read more

We are in port, but looking the part, tomorrow we go to work. The good thing that happens today is that we have accurate looking the part for Portugal, and see a possible window, so we are still referring to it throughout the day, pending updates, and that window, although not very clearly, seems enough … Read more

We do not get out to sail and, although it was not planned in the expedition, we have carried out a dive with divers. Divers have failed to take a corner sheltered from the waves on this coast, opposite Roquetas de Mar, and dive in a magnificent meadow of posidonia, one of the latest reefs … Read more

These days we are caught in port by winds of force 5 and 6, which not only prevent work with ROV, but also the wind turbine have spoiled us. As always in these cases, patience and several tasks and look the part morning and evening to see if it abates and we can leave. For … Read more

We are closely monitoring the weather, day and night, to see when it will be possible to head to Portugal, but meanwhile, it’s not looking so good for us here either. At noon a strong wind from the west forced us to cut our day short and pack up quickly after the last dive. Today … Read more

Our strategy for studying Seco de los Olivos this time around was to cover areas that we had had conducted for which we had little to no date, and to revisit particularly interesting areas to bulk up the data we had already accumulated. We did two dives in areas never before visited, where we documented … Read more