Hi all! It's been a while - I've been up to some all-day adventures aboard the work boat we have on the Launcher which has definitely left me with minimal time to be writing. At any rate: working on a boat that is deployed off a bigger boat is such a TRIP! I thought parallel parking in Miami was a tricky business, but getting a small boat that is influenced by waves back on a bigger boat that is only kinda influenced by the big swells is WAYYY more hardcore than that! I have a daily reminder that offshore life is so much more complicated than my day-to-day onshore - it's CRAZY. Another note on being in a small boat - you really feel the ocean moving beneath you. In the Launcher we tend to roll with the swell, which has been significant a couple times this trip (read 5-6 meter swells OH GOSH) but even 2 meter swell feels GIANT in the work boat, though the nice part has been that it's JUST LIKE being on whale watching boats as a kid - and I KNOW that I look exactly the same as when I was out on those boats - beaming from ear to ear as my hair gets tangled in the wind. There's nothing quite like it. An update on our favorite plastic-eating U-shaped Wilson: he's been put through a couple week of Pacific Trials, and there are a few more things that need to happen before we can move out to the Garbage Patch, so we're keeping on keeping on and going through the tests so that we can go and try to catch some plastic!
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AuthorBree Gibbs, here. I'm a recent Master's Grad just trying to share what it's like to be a trash scientist (for those who aren't in the know, I'm a marine biologist). Categories
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