The sea is not, I think, something for those who regard the world in terms of conquest. A mountain can be conquered: Zebulon Pike’s “unclimbable peak” is now saddled with […]

It took the away team three excursions out to the buoy, jury-rigging scavenged electronics into place under the hatch of a Volkswagen-sized pod bobbing in the the open ocean, but […]

Captain turned the ship around day before last. The storm was coming at us from the southwest, so rather than sit in place and ride it out, we’d pressed our […]

Last night’s dreams consistently returned to the image of sleeping on a porch swing pulled and pushed to its limits by a maniac, a rhythmic alternation between weightlessness and a […]

We’re holding station west of FLMA2 amid worsening seas. It’s not bad, but bad enough that we’ve postponed trying to retrieve HYPM1, the last of the undersea moorings from last […]

Sorry for the radio silence – things have been understandably busy, both above deck and below. Up top, the science team has been working like crazy to deploy the rest […]

Morning brought a miserable drizzle, but the flattest seas we’ve seen since we left port. It was time to get to work. First order of the cruise was to get […]

Another day, another bout of nausea, another look at the weather to see if we can unload some of honking big pieces of science sitting on the back deck. Yeah, […]

I promise, I am not making any of this up. Because I couldn’t make this sort of thing up: we’ve broken off our original deployment plan to hunt down and […]