Legacy: Baltic Expedition 2012

Today we have made landfall in Copenhagen after eleven days of campaign in the Baltic sea, where we have carried out several surveys in the Kattegat area among the countries of Sweden and Denmark. The day at port has been used to receive some spare parts of the ROV, which were deteriorated when it engaged … Read more

Today another sunny day dawned on a calm sea, as has been the case all these late April days. This is always good news, particularly for those who must spend many hours outdoors on board, although it is also good news for me: the sun fills the pictures with brightness and colours that don’t appear … Read more

We started the day with a ROV at not much depth. Our initial idea was to send the ROV to check whether the area might be worth it, as the ROV can remain at the bottom for as long as necessary. The area was worth it, and how! After a few hours’ filming, we put … Read more

Last night our ROV was confronted with what is the worst enemy of the underwater robots: the lost fishing nets. While carrying a night operation, we detected an abandoned trawling net that was stuck on the sea bottom. While trying to avoid it, the ROV was caught in several of the ropes around the fishing … Read more

After leaving Helsingborg yesterday we spend most of the night making way to Djüpa Rännan West, about 5 miles out side the Göteborg Archipelago. With a depth of just over a hundred meters, it is one of the deepest places in Kattegat. Just after breakfast we were in place to launch the rov…now at 23:00 … Read more

After exploring the Ven Island area yesterday we have arrived and docked in Helsingborg, Sweden today. Helsingborg is a city located between Sweden and Denmark in a narrow passage between the two countries’ shorelines called “The Sound”. The city which is often referred to as the Pearl of the Sound is home to some 130 … Read more

Second day with the ROV dives in the Sound sampling bottoms around -30 meters to know how several biological communities have evolved. Haploops (those small crustaceans living in tubes) have almost disappeared; that is bad news. And horse mussels are present in small groups. Now, brittle stars cover most of the muddy beds in the … Read more

I have never been in the ship for more than couple hours. And to stay on board for not full 3 days looked challenging. As I am not a marine biologist and my profession is in any way related with nature and science, before coming to expedition I was concern about few questions “ What … Read more

Today was our first day of fieldwork of the 2012 expedition. Throughout the day we managed to conduct four surveys with the (ROV) in the area east of the Danish island of Anholt in Kattegat. We filmed lots of interesting habitats and communities. One of the more interesting organisms we met at 35 meters depth … Read more