Oceana, an international marine conservation organization, has placed a series of stations for measuring toxic hydrocarbon pollution around the BP Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. This pioneering project will make it possible to detect the toxic fraction of petroleum hydrocarbons dissolved into the waters that surround the damaged rig. It will also evaluate … Read more
Oceana Latitude – Today marks the final day of the mapping the plume expedition. This morning the Oceana team pulled up the last two moorings of the trip and cast one last CTD scan. Test strips will be sent back to a lab and will be analyzed. Initially, the strips will be placed under a … Read more
Oceana Latitude – Another hard working day notched into the belt. After today the Oceana team can check three more moorings off the list. Today started in similar fashion as the last few days, early morning, eat breakfast and hoisted a mooring. What separated today from the others were jellyfish and canyons. To this point … Read more
Oceana Latitude — The Oceana crew has officially become used to the life aquatic. After a hard day yesterday and being on the boat for a little over a week, heavy-eyed heads hit the pillows hard last night. Going to sleep everyone thought they had seen everything. Wrong, this morning we awoke to yet another … Read more
Oceana Latitude – Early morning sunrise and calm seas today! The morning commenced as we dropped the CTD machine in the water at 6:00am. The entire deployment took two hours and then it was off to the next mooring site for strip retrieval. While in route we heard news of the oil platform explosion off … Read more
Oceana Latitude — Rest and recuperation was the theme for today. After five days of exhausting work the Oceana team ventured back out to the Deepwater Horizon mooring sites to continue retrieval. Due to time restrictions and rough weather, only half the moorings from the originally planned experiment were set. Yet, this is science so … Read more
Oceana Latitude—Despite sore muscles and burnt faces reflecting three days of major mooring deployment, the Oceana team was on deck at 6:30 in the morning and ready for more. This morning brought at sense of relief, knowing that today would be the last day of mooring deployment and raised the spirits of all. After the … Read more
Oceana Latitude–morning came fast today, by 6:30am the entire crew was on deck ready to deploy the first mooring. However, instead of a beautiful sunrise the Oceana team began its day to an unnerving thunder and lighting show. Eight was the lucky number today. The eight man crew successfully deployed eight moorings today. The complete … Read more
The site of the Deepwater Horizon was the focus of the day. The objective was to establish a 10 kilometer diameter of moorings around Deepwater Horizon site. With an average water depth of 1600 meters, the Oceana team knew it would be a long day. At 6:30am team members positioned themselves on deck and had … Read more
This morning started off with a bang, literately. The hull of the Oceana Latitude was smashing hard through the waves and acted as an early morning alarm clock for the Oceana crew. Awaking to an ocean landscape of a mixture of offshore oilrigs, whitecaps and an unforgiving sky, I thought to myself, this must be … Read more
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