In January 2015 we sailed onboard RV Pelagia from Mindelo, Sao Vicente, Cape Verde Islands to Barbados.

 

On this blog, we'll keep you updated on our adventures at sea. Please drop us a note (jbstuut-at-nioz.nl) if you have any questions!?

Weekly report 1  /\ Weekly report 2  /\ Weekly report 3

 

7 February: A dust pilgrimage, visiting the dust station that Joe Prospero set up in the 1960’s.

 

7 February: So long, and thanks for all the fish!

 

6 February: New neighbours

6 February: Beautiful Barbados

5 February: Ships big and small: Pelagia being dwarfed by two cruise ships!

 

5 February: Cleaning up

 

5 February: Barbados by night

 

4 February: Land ahoy!

 

4 February: What have we done? Final briefing in the bar.

 

4 February: En route to Barbados!. All the work is finished, now it’s time to go home.

 

3 February: Wildlife

 

 

 

3 February: Wildlife

 

2 February: Last mooring in!

 

2 February: The end is near, the food almost eaten....

 

1 February: Got the gold!

 

1 February: Meterbox at sea

 

31 January: Goodbye buoy for another year! Laua says goodbye to “her” buoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

31 January: Inside the buoy; Barry is the only one who managed to squeeze in....

 

31 January: Inside the buoy

 

30 January: 100% score again!

 

30 January: Cleaning the buoy

 

29 January: Dream team

 

29 January: Eat my dust!

 

 

 

 

 

28 January: Small buoy or big ship?

 

28 January: Buoy ecosystems

 

28 January: Dust makes the national Newspaper

 

27 January: The Iron man: Patrick in his ultra-clean contiainer.

 

27 January: No NUTS no glory: Karel measuringt nutrients (nuts) in his lab container.

 

26 January: Gestopt!

 

26 January: Stopt u maar.... Hans operates the CTD winch with merry comments.s

 

25 January: Dietary wishes; Cook Leon can make any  dish taste good!

 

25 January: Sunday traditions: Portwine and chocolate, accompanied by classical music: a geologists’ tradition.

 

24 January: Bergfest BBQ

 

24 January: Preparing the traps

 

24 January: Full house on the aft

 

23 January: Goodbye for another year: Michelle says goodbye to “her” buoy.

 

23 January: In she goes!

 

23 January: The answer, my friend....

 

22 January: Guess what's on the menu!? Martin not only knows how to catch ‘em, but also how to clean them!

 

22 January: Uitje erbij?

 

21 January: A 100% score!

 

21 January: Buoy ahoy!

 

20 January: When instruments fail, it’s: all hands on the bridge!

 

20 January: Stowaway

 

19 January: Trap on deck!!

 

19 January: Fishing for traps

 

18 January: Cleaning away the dust

 

18 January: Preparing the drifting traps

 

 

 

18 January: A sunday meal. Cook Leon makes all meals very nice but on Sundays it’s even better!

 

17 January: Deformed cups

 

17 January: Dust-buoy preparations

 

16 January: Big cups, little cups; 500bar of pressure (at 5000m depth) makes them shrink....

 

16 January: Mapping the water column with the ADCP (yellow current profiler)

 

16 January: Tapping the water column (with the ultraclean CTD, which takes trace-metal free samples)

 

 

 

 

15 January: Processing the samples

 

14 January: What happened to gravity?

 

14 January: Bob the Fixer

 

13 January: Floating sediment traps

 

13 January: Natural sun protection

 

12 January: Dust is in the air! (part 3)

 

 

 

 

12 January: Dust is in the air! (part 2)

 

11 January: Dust is in the air!

 

11 January: Dusty views

 

10 January: Preparations

 

10 January: Visitors from the INDP

 

10 January: Mindelo

 

 

 

 

 

10 January: Cruise preparations

 

9 January: Back on board

 

9 January: The eagles have landed!


 

8 January: A slow start of our expedition.... A delay that was caused by.... DUST!

 

2 January: A dusty start of 2015

 

1 January: Happy new year!

 

30 December: RV Pelagia on her way north

 

16 December: Precruise meeting

 

15 December: Teaching high-school kids (dusty) science

 

10 December: Dusty laundry

 

1 December: Trap-handling lessons

 

1 December: Assembling the new traps

 

 

28 November: The new traps have arrived!

 

27 November: Omni sampler in pieces

 

24 November: Will it fit in the container?

 

21 November: Things on lists and lists of things....

On 8 January 2015 we'll fly to Mindelo, which is the capital of Sao Vicente, which is one of the Cape-Verdian Islands. The ship will arrive one day later and we'll start packing directly; new stores (food and drinks!) will have to be brought on board, and also the equipment and stuff that we need to do our work. All our tools and instruments will be shipped in two 20-ft containers, which we hope to find waiting for us on the 8th!

Below you can see the planned cruise track: