Menorca Canyon

At last, we reach this immense canyon south of Menorca. The first dive takes us to a depth of 235 meters, a record for us. As soon as we reach the bottom, we see an anglerfish (Lophius sp.) camouflaged amongst the fine sediment. Soon, the walls of the canyon begin to rise quickly and we … Read more

Mahon

We will make our last stop in port to load supplies and rest a little, before finishing this year’s campaign. At night, we have been carrying out bathymetric measurements of the CaƱon de Menorca canyon, where we will be working during the next few days. The profile given by the computer looks very promising. From … Read more

Menorca canal

The area of the canal of Menorca has a platform of at least 100 meters depth that joins the islands of Mallorca and Menorca, but in the southern section of its slope, it falls to great depths, habouring many extremely interesting ecosystems. We are going take samples in different areas and depths here in order … Read more

East of Cabrera

Today, we will take samples with the ROV in two areas within the park. One in the southeast and another in the north. The sea floors are sandy with large concentrations of sand urchins, especially Spatangus purpureus. In other areas, we spot large concentrations of rhizomes and dead Posidonia leaves which have been transported to … Read more

Cabrera

Today, we will enter the Cabrera National Park. We have a meeting early this morning with the park rangers in order to exchange information and decide in which areas we are going to work. They were extremely helpful. Many of them have spent various years here and they are very fond of this area. Those … Read more

West of Cabrera

In the end, we had to take shelter for the night in Porto Petro. In the morning, the storm had subsided and we set sail toward Cabrera. We did 2 transections with the robot in the limits of the Cabrera National Park in order to find out the state of the sea floors in the … Read more

Emile Baudot

The day does not start off well. The weather forecast is calling for force 3 and 4 winds from the southeast and southwest, but we also have a force 7 and 8 windstorm coming from the northeast. Obviously, we cannot continue our work and we must leave the area in search of shelter. We set … Read more