Blog Posts
It’s been an amazing adventure, ODYSSEY Gulf Blog (year 3), Day 55, July 18, 2012
Day 55, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, Yesterday marked the anniversary of our launch in 2010. It’s been an amazing adventure since then. As befitting its name, when you work on a boat like Odyssey you learn that there are certain legends of the ship of whom stories are told in heroic [...]
Read More…Humorous outcomes, ODYSSEY Gulf Blog (year 3), Day 53, July 15, 2012
Day 53, Monday, July 15, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, Finding whales is not as easy as it seems and sometimes it leads to humorous outcomes. Take today for example. A whale was spotted a few hundred meters ahead to our starboard bow (picture attached) . Rather excitedly, the team gathered to collect a sample. [...]
Read More…Day 52 Edit, July 14, 2012
Day 52 edited, Sunday, July14, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, Its 1:15 am on the east coast, but Cathy posts a careful watch over my work and found a confusing typo. The passage should read (correction in bold & underline): Sperm whales have 42 chromosomes, 20 matched pairs plus the two sex chromosomes. The particular [...]
Read More…A game of cellular whodunit, ODYSSEY Gulf Blog (year 3), Day 52, July 14, 2012
Day 52, Sunday, July 14, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, Within a cell the DNA is maintained in structures called chromosomes. These are a combination of DNA and protein that ultimately package the DNA so that when a cell divides into two, each daughter cell gets exactly 1 set of the set of DNA instructions. [...]
Read More…A day at sea can be remarkable, ODYSSEY Gulf Blog (year 3), Day 51, July 14, 2012
Day 51, Saturday, July 14, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, A day at sea can be remarkable from beginning to end even when events are somewhat unremarkable. The ocean will provide for interesting things to see and opportunities for close camaraderie. Take today for example. The day seemed ordinary enough for a whale group at [...]
Read More…So what are we finding?, ODYSSEY Gulf Blog (year 3), Day 50, July 13, 2012
Day 50, Friday, July 13, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, On March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska and released an estimated 11 million gallons of oil into the water. It was the largest oil spill in U.S. waters. Despite the disaster, little research was done [...]
Read More…we deserved the chance to slump, ODYSSEY Gulf Blog (year 3), Day 49, July 12, 2012
Day 49, Thursday, July 12, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, It was exactly as I feared. The kid woke me up even earlier today! This time it was 6:30 am and by 6:45 am, we had our first biopsy. It was the start to a very long day that 18 hours later finds me still [...]
Read More…First-day-of-a-leg record!, ODYSSEY Gulf Blog (year 3), Day 48, July 11, 2012
Day 48, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, Over the past three years of Gulf voyages we have switched out members on each leg and launched with different teams. Each team has its own distinct identity and leaves an indelible mark in our memory and some live on in Odyssey lore and we [...]
Read More…Don’t Look Back , ODYSSEY Gulf Blog (year 3), Day 47, Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Day 47, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, Port can be long or it can be short. This call was short though we did have some fun. James flew down (it was good to see him after these many weeks) and we went to a see the rock band Boston in concert. It [...]
Read More…We are in Biloxi!, ODYSSEY Gulf Blog (year 3), Day 43
Day 43, Friday, July 6, 2012 Dear Family and Friends, As if mother nature read my last note, we had some wavy weather coming in. Nothing too serious for too long, but enough to rock us about a bit and give the new folks a taste of rougher seas. Not sure where exactly the storm [...]
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