Legacy: Baltic Expedition 2013

Today has been our first day of ROV and diving operations in Poland. We started early in the morning looking for a suitable place to launch our inflatable boat, but due to the fact that it is the peak of holiday season and the concentration of tourists is rather high,  we spent a lot of … Read more

Today the rest of the expedition arrived to Gdansk. Andrzej had some problems with the car so we had to get it checked at a car garage. The guy said that it would take a couple of hours, so in the meantime Andrzej was busy with emails and calls, while I was editing some of … Read more

Doing laundry has proved to be a major challenge during the expedition and generally avoided until absolute emergency. We had a late breakfast in our hotel in Espoo and decided to deal with the laundry issue in a professional laundry facility in a mall. We had somewhat limited time because of our Tallinn ferry connection later … Read more

After a few days of work in Norrskär, we set off to Poland. It will take about 1500km and a ferry to get to the area. Our colleagues here have been studying for days the areas and ports so we can carry out the ROV operations, the diving and fishing ports documentation. Unlike previous years, … Read more

The first of July is a diving day. Based on the findings of the two previous ROVs in the area, Hanna decided to perform two dives in Norrskar´s vicinity. The first dive gave us the usual picture of dead and dying fish: struck by the fact that in every dive, besides small dead fish bodies, … Read more

Today is our first day of work in Finland. The plan for the day is to make a long sailing of roughly twenty miles, to one of the islands of the “Quark”, that is an archipelago located in the west coast of Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia. We decide that only those who are … Read more

The main objective for the day was making it from Åland to Vaasa in Finland. We had a ferry connection around two o’clock, so the morning was for half of us doing harbor research near Mariehamn. The other half gave the Zodiac a little t.l.c. We had a broken running light we had rigged to … Read more

After the policy and media work we did yesterday by meeting with Carina Aaltonen, the Minister of Environment and Social Affairs of the autonomous archipelago of the Aland Islands to present her with our proposals for new MPAs in their waters, today we were pleased to see the echo of those activities in the press, … Read more

Finally I made it to the expedition! This is the day I have been waiting for since I said goodbye to the team in Malmö, in early June. It was very nice for me to join the crew in Åland Islands which is a special place to me as I have spent many summers there … Read more

Today was my last day at the expedition. We travelled from Åhus in southern Sweden to Stockholm to take the ferry to the Åland islands where our manager for the Copenhagen office, Hanna Paulomäki, took over and led the Finnish part of the expedition. It was decided to leave early in the morning as we … Read more