Programs Blog

Wednesday, October, 22, 2025  

Noon Position:  33°31.0’ N x  063°46.2’ W

Ship Heading: 135°

Ship Speed: 6.2 knots

Log: 1232 nm

Weather: 24 degrees C sunny with slight breeze

Description of location: about 100 nm East of Bermuda

Today my Watch, C watch was on Afternoon watch. After a nice chill morning of hanging out on the deck in the sun observing the Sargasso Sea’s blue water and slowly waking up from our sleep-in, it was time for me to head up into the lab for the remaining seven sunny hours of the day.  We started with our usual hourly data collections and observed an absurd amount of sargassum, which is a species of sea weed, found in the Atlantic Ocean. We did not deploy any nets in our watch but we did process many from earlier that day. This consisted of Avery Bemis and I rinsing each tiny piece of sargassum as to make sure that no critters were missed in our one hundred count for later. Once we were complete with that we started to take a closer look at the sargassum to see what critters are living in it at the surface of the water, spotting microscopic little snails and Barnacles.

For class we filmed our first attempt at our boat tour for our presentation at the end of the term but quickly realized that this would not be the only attempt and decided to come back to it at a later time. We then took the rest of our time in the lab to do one hundred counts, identifying tiny critters and larvae from the ocean with a quick break to watch the sunset. After a very productive  watch we enjoyed a delicious dinner of pork sandwiches and I,  not too long afterwards, fell asleep to be woken up for morning watch the next day.

 Claire S., C Watch