![]() The first two days are full of smiles, good humor and getting used to this wonderful ship. ![]() There are five days of transit, that each person begins, as it so happens, mainly advancing work on their computers. The second part of the story begins when our ship, the Pelagia, sails from Nassau towards the Gulf of Mexico, near the Mississippi. ![]() I decided to prepare well, and of course take a pharmacy with me. In the end I decided to go, why not try? I still knew that the work would be complicated since one of my functions would be to work with ethanol, and anyone who has been dizzy on a ship knows that strong odors are the worst of the world. I was afraid that the dizziness would be constant throughout the trip and wouldn't let me work or be torture. But there was a problem, I get dizzy on boats. It was a golden opportunity to go onboard and collect samples for my doctorate just two and a half months after starting my four-year PhD. The first is before entering the ship and begins at the NIOZ when Gert-Jan told me that I could go on the Pelagia in an oceanographic campaign. Clearly enough material to fill a PhD thesis with (or more than one, actually)! In total, we have visited 21 stations, deployed the multicorer 37 times, retrieved a total of 45.91m piston core, collected about 4000 sediment samples, filled over 250 bottles with rose Bengal to stain living benthic foraminifera, and labeled >4500 vials for porewater collection. ![]() This appeared to be one of those magical expeditions where everything seems to work out: we visited all stations according to the plan, collected all samples on our wish lists, piston cores came up full, and even managed to squeeze in two additional sites that came up during our scientific discussions while slicing the multicores. As soon as we fully entered the Gulf, the sea calmed down, the sun came out, and luck was on our side again. Sure enough, we encountered the first hiccups in Nassau, with a last minute crew change and the hospitalization of Yord (the (un)lucky PhD student on this project, read his earlier blog post), followed by a day of sea sickness of practically all scientific participants once we finally left port. ![]()
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