August 22, 2011
Dispatch 1: Underway, Again
In a couple of hours, we’ll be underway again heading back to those same waters where we were so harshly treated three years ago. More »
Featured ImageBest Of. View more images » Featured VideoFinale video from Ben Harden. View more videos » Journals by Dallas (English)August 22, 2011Dispatch 1: Underway, AgainIn a couple of hours, we’ll be underway again heading back to those same waters where we were so harshly treated three years ago. More » August 23, 2011Dispatch 2: The Identity of WaterTo apprehend the true wonder of the ocean-current system, we need to imagine the ocean alive with motion, currents flowing on the surface and through the deep darks, never ceasing, transporting heat and water from the tropics to the Arctic and returning cold water at depth. More » August 24, 20113: How to Measure an Ocean, Part OneThe basic structure of a mooring consists of the anchor, a powerfully buoyant ball near the surface, and a wire in between onto which instruments measuring, in this case, temperature, salinity, and velocity are attached. More » August 27, 20114: Imagining OceansTo appreciate the elegant beauty of nature’s great ocean/atmosphere systems, we need to cast our minds out over vast distances and into opaque depths. More » August 28, 20115: Play Day (For Some)The deck crew, with the sure-handed seamanship typical to this vessel, craned the small boat (a rigid-hull inflatable, or “RHIB”) off the 0-2 deck, lowered it to main deck and secured it to the starboard rail for ease of boarding. More » | |||||||||||||
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