Pushing onward from the Canary Islands, the trade winds picked up making trawling ever more complicated with the increasing speed of the ship. With distance to land, the abundance of plankton quickly declined, as both...
18 47,4 N 021 27,1 W 4.8 kts It's been already 5 days since we left Tenerife. While we were preparing the departure all of a sudden the wind picked up from the NE so we could sail the Europa without the use of...
After ten days at sea and a rough start in the English Channel, the scientific research is well underway! With the manta trawl and regular plankton trawl alternating on surveys each day, a diverse mix of zooplankton...
The tall ships arrived in Aalborg by 4th July and the race events of 2019 began with the opening ceremony and the Crew Parade, followed by crew activities such as basketball and football. Then all the crews from all the ships...
Over the last few days at sea the voyage crew have been getting to grips with the art of sail training through many information bursts and practical instructions lead by the permanent crew. At about midnight...
Today has been the first day at sea after an action-packed week in Scheveningen for the Liberty Tall Ships Regatta! The new voyage crew arrived yesterday evening and have since been trained in the...
We’ve been trying to catch plankton, but we’ve found so much other life in our nets too! Aside from Copepods, a plankton which look a lot like blue, white and red microplastics, which dominate our samples,...
Sometimes called mankind’s oldest picture book, the constellations greet us most evenings. By 2000 B.C., groups of stars were named after shapes of mythical characters, heroes, animals and objects. The...
Hello everybody, I presume that you have all read the beautiful story about my personality from a human perspective. It made very interesting reading but I would also like to give you a description from my...
The swells were kind to us so we managed to get ashore for two days. Last time I was here, 2 years ago, we waited at anchor 3 days & only got to have 4 hours to explore the very small town of Georgetown. But...