Legacy: Baltic Expedition 2013

Today was a different day. The crew split up in 4 small work teams. The camper is based in the harbor of Ahus as our “headquarters”. Some of us had to go somewhere to fill the tanks for today´s dives. We tried to do it as quiet as possible to avoid being a disruption to … Read more

‘Today we are back in Southern Sweden, Hanö Bay on the SE coast. The operations are carried out at about 10 miles off shore at some mussel banks about which the local authorities are particularly interested in receiving information. Hanö Bay has suffered from environmental problems during the last years. In 2010 local fishermen started … Read more

In appreciation of the fabulous midsummer party last night, we spent the morning in Ullared, helping our Cowboy hosts setting up a fence, that later in the day would contain cattle…Swedish dairy cows, unaware they had been chosen to be rodeo cows for the weekend. Though somewhat out of our element, the fence went up, … Read more

Today is our last day in the archipelago of Göteborg. We only have a few hours to work as we have to head to southern Sweden in order to finish our expedition days in this country and then move to Finland to start a new phase of the campaign. So at 07:00 am, we are … Read more

We are back in Marstrand.  The Weather Forecast predicts a rainy afternoon. Yesterday we were very lucky with the ROV immersions, so today the divers will work on those points where the ROV found corals and fish. First diving is ready, so the rest of the crew takes advantage and reply to e-mails, fill the … Read more

Dead silence on the boat. All you hear is the waves hitting the sides. We are rolling up and down, up and down, on the waves. Concentrated faces staring at the sea. Up and down, up and down. Klaus is standing up on the boat eating potato crisps. Grillchips. I’m feeling sick, sea sick. I … Read more

The only water we tried today was the shower´s. Neither ROV or diving, we “opened” this Monday traveling from Denmark to Sweden across the beautiful Oresundsbron´s  bridge. Our destination was three fishing ports: Glommen, Traslovslage and Bua, and our goal, the fishing vessels based in there. So Gorka and I spent a few hours documenting … Read more

Today we set off for the third day, we were in Little Belt and headed towards Sjælland to do some underwater studies in the Great Belt. On the way, our small caravan stopped in a couple of smaller fishing harbours, where photographer Carlos Minguell and videographer Gorka Leclercq documented fishing vessels. Originally the plan for … Read more

Today our plans were launching the ROV at first time in the morning, but due to the weather conditions, we decided to cancel the operation, and instead made two immersions with the divers. The first dive was in a mug seabed spot, were we could film and photograph many crabs, sea stars, jelly fish and … Read more