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04.01.2016
Hap­py New Year from S 23°30' W 110°00'
 
News from the Sonne crew have arrived.
Cla­ra wri­tes:

Happy New Year from the UltraPac-Team!

Being one of our New Ye­ar's re­so­lu­ti­ons to have a nine me­ter long gra­vi­ty core full of seaf­loor se­di­ment on deck, our New Ye­ar's Eve sam­pling was a gre­at suc­cess. You'll learn more on the What and Why in an up­co­m­ing post...
Even if a bit jea­lous for mis­sing a sno­wy start of the year, we do still en­joy a bright sun and tem­pe­ra­tu­res over 25ºC. The wa­ter is so still and calm that it al­lows to see the cloud­s' re­flec­tions on it, and so cle­ar that we can dis­tin­gu­ish the up-cas­ting CTD-ro­set­te from a depth of 50 metres. As we watch it rise, sil­ver fi­gu­res swim­ming in cir­cles catch our eyes,
and we in­ter­pret them as fish; how big or how deep away, we can­not tell. As if to cle­ar out doubts, la­ter du­ring the day a puf­fer-fish ma­kes its ap­pearan­ce un­der the sea sur­face to cu­rious­ly ex­ami­ne the pump-CTD. Che­cking if it the­re's so­me­thing ea­ta­ble about it, it lin­gers around, to­tal­ly re­la­xed. Nut­ri­ent poor as they can be, we are de­fi­ni­te­ly not alo­ne in the­se wa­ters!

Cla­ra Mar­ti­nez Pe­rez
MPIMM
Checking the gravity core
MPIMM
Our New Year's guest, the puffer fish
Contact:
Dr. Man­fred Schloes­ser
Press of­fi­cer
Tel.: +49 421 2028 704
Mail: mschloes(at)mpi-bre­men.de

Dr. Fan­ni As­pets­ber­ger
Press of­fi­cer
Tel.: +49 421 2028 645
Mail: fas­petsb(at)mpi-bre­men.de
Cla­ra Mar­ti­nez Pe­rez
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Po­si­ti­on re­por­ted on Ja­nu­a­ry 4, 2016

S 23°30' W 110°00'
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