Remember Greenpeace's John Hocevar? He made an appearance here on Ocean Day and then in post about his upcoming Bering Sea research. He reported in from the field a couple weeks ago but his message and photo was temporarily lost in my email box to be recovered now.
John wrote: As I type, I'm listening to the subs on the radio - one just reported that she found obviously visible trawl tracks.
Everything's going well so far. We only lost one day to weather (out of six), and are covering ground more quickly than expected so we may even be able to make up for the one missed day. The bottom's been fairly silty, but we're spending so much time down there that we are accumulating quite a highlight reel. I think we've had about 36 hours on the bottom already, and we just started on Saturday.
In addition to the video, we're bringing up specimens. Dozens of species so far, including a couple that may not have been previously described.
And, it's fun!
Tumbling anemone, gorgonian coral, hydroids, sponge, etc. from the deep of Pribilof canyon.
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