<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090</id><updated>2012-01-05T09:59:58.708+01:00</updated><category term='WCPA MR - East Africa'/><title type='text'>2009 Seamounts cruise</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>57</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-2121416078473891328</id><published>2011-10-28T11:29:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T08:58:32.459+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A new expedition - a new blog!</title><content type='html'>In the framework of the Seamounts project, a second cruise will be undertaken on board the RRS James Cook between 7 November and 21 December 2011 to explore 5 seamounts that were studied in 2009. Whereas the first cruise focused on the pelagic communities (in the water column), the second one will investigate the benthic assemblages (what lives in, on or close to the seafloor).&lt;br /&gt;You can follow the expedition, live from the ship, on the new blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seamountsexpedition.blogspot.com/"&gt;www.seamountsexpedition.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-2121416078473891328?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/2121416078473891328/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-expedition-new-blog.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2121416078473891328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2121416078473891328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-expedition-new-blog.html' title='A new expedition - a new blog!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6520211471537766756</id><published>2010-11-15T16:56:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-17T07:49:33.771+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The final day of the workshop is upon us!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TOFZoSIuKiI/AAAAAAAAAjA/6_Vw0k_Rvnk/s1600/CCV_5209_1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539807565240478242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 279px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TOFZoSIuKiI/AAAAAAAAAjA/6_Vw0k_Rvnk/s400/CCV_5209_1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;Group picture of participants:&lt;!--?xml:namespace prefix = o /--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;Top row left to tight&lt;/b&gt;: Jane Read, Amy Taylor, James Mclaine, Khanyisile Ngomane, Oddgeir Alvheim, Julian Badcock, Monica Mwale. &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;Middle row left to right&lt;/b&gt;: Nosiphiwo Springbok, Gildas Todinanahary, Nicole Du Plessis, Peter Konstantinidis, Eric Anderson, Alex Rogers, Vladimir Laptikhovsky, Riaan Cedras, Vijay Mangar. &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;Bottom row left to right&lt;/b&gt;: Philipp Boersch-Supan, Stela Fernando, Kirsty Kemp, Nkosinathi Masangula. &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;Absent&lt;/b&gt;: Tinus Sonnekus, Tom Bornman and Rainer von Brandis (photographer)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Participants have worked incredibly hard this last week spending on average 12 hours per day at the world-class facilities generously provided by SAIAB (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity). More than 200 species of fish and 74 species of squid have been identified during the workshop. Additionally, the fish larvae expert Peter Konstantinidis has identified the larval stages of approximately 30 fish species. Although there were far too many samples to work through during this workshop, many of the participants will continue working on them during the ensuing months. Phillip Boersch-Supan and Kirsty Kemp have extracted several hundred biological samples from fishes including stomach contents, otoliths, scales, muscle tissue and brain tissue. These will be used for various studies related to deep-sea fish ecology and physiology. Although the taxonomic data still need to be analysed, the principal scientist, Alex Rogers, expects to find interesting latitudinal differences in the composition of seamount-associated species. Given that this is the first time that these specific seamounts have been studied, this information and the anticipated publications arising from it, should greatly assist in the management of deep-sea ecosystems and allow us to gain a better understanding of how they function ecologically. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;The Participants would like to thank the project partners, namely: &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;IUCN &lt;/b&gt;(International Union for Conservation of Nature) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;ZSL&lt;/b&gt; (Zoological Society of London)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;ASCLME &lt;/b&gt;(Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;GEF&lt;/b&gt; (Global Environment Facility)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;UNDP&lt;/b&gt; (United Nations Development Program)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;IMR &lt;/b&gt;(Institute of Marine Research)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;NERC&lt;/b&gt; (Natural Environment Research Council)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;ECOMAR &lt;/b&gt;(University of Reunion Marine Ecology Lab)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;SIODFA&lt;/b&gt; (Southern Indian Ocean Deepsea Fishers Association)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;ACEP &lt;/b&gt;(African Coelocanth Ecosystem Prgramme)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total Foundation &lt;/strong&gt;(Fondation Total)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CenSeam&lt;/strong&gt; (Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6520211471537766756?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6520211471537766756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/final-day-of-workshop-is-upon-us.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6520211471537766756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6520211471537766756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/final-day-of-workshop-is-upon-us.html' title='The final day of the workshop is upon us!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TOFZoSIuKiI/AAAAAAAAAjA/6_Vw0k_Rvnk/s72-c/CCV_5209_1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-2046194946189179088</id><published>2010-11-14T10:08:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-29T09:38:01.095+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A new species of squid has been discovered!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN-ngOo4NCI/AAAAAAAAAi4/QZ4tfPjDqOg/s1600/CCV_5110.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN-ngOo4NCI/AAAAAAAAAi4/QZ4tfPjDqOg/s400/CCV_5110.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539330238816203810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN-nYPB2xkI/AAAAAAAAAiw/1ZiO-2dKZ24/s1600/CCV_5154%2Bcopy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN-nYPB2xkI/AAAAAAAAAiw/1ZiO-2dKZ24/s400/CCV_5154%2Bcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539330101482014274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;Dr. Vladimir Laptikhovsky has discovered a new species of squid this week belonging to the c&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;hiroteuthid &lt;/i&gt;group of families&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Members of this squid group are generally long and slender and are capable of remarkable bioluminescent displays. Some also have club-like photophores along their arms which are believed to act as lures to attract prey (similar to the anglerfish). More than 70 species of squid have been identified from the seamounts cruise samples thus far. Incredibly, this represents in excess of 20% of the global squid biodiversity! More information regarding workshop findings will be posted tomorrow, the last day of the workshop.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;Picture 1:&lt;/b&gt; Dr. Vladimir Laptikhovsky displays the new &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;Chiroteuthis&lt;/i&gt; species.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;Picture 2:&lt;/b&gt; A closer look at the new &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;Chiroteuthis&lt;/i&gt; species.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-2046194946189179088?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/2046194946189179088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/two-new-species-of-squid-have-been.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2046194946189179088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2046194946189179088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/two-new-species-of-squid-have-been.html' title='A new species of squid has been discovered!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN-ngOo4NCI/AAAAAAAAAi4/QZ4tfPjDqOg/s72-c/CCV_5110.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6810682219259613039</id><published>2010-11-13T17:47:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-13T17:54:01.531+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Here are some strange and particularly frightening looking fish from the deep!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN7Coa58BSI/AAAAAAAAAio/3LPt2AdfVwA/s1600/Melanocetus%2Bjohnsoni.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 387px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN7Coa58BSI/AAAAAAAAAio/3LPt2AdfVwA/s400/Melanocetus%2Bjohnsoni.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539078591385175330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN7COhQmFjI/AAAAAAAAAig/-34jWzhSfAQ/s1600/orio.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 355px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN7COhQmFjI/AAAAAAAAAig/-34jWzhSfAQ/s400/orio.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539078146414220850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN7CCxinqHI/AAAAAAAAAiY/-71iAGk6EKM/s1600/chaunax%2Bpictus.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 178px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN7CCxinqHI/AAAAAAAAAiY/-71iAGk6EKM/s400/chaunax%2Bpictus.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539077944626358386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN7B16jNU1I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/QKlzqpGes8E/s1600/Lancetfish.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN7B16jNU1I/AAAAAAAAAiQ/QKlzqpGes8E/s400/Lancetfish.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539077723706446674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;Picture 1:&lt;/b&gt; James Mclaine holds up a ‘humpback blackdevil’ Anglerfish (&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"&gt;Melanocetus johnsoni&lt;/i&gt;). This fish dangles a bioluminescent light from its forehead in order to lure prey within gulping range. Because this method of feeding is so effective, this fish has little need of swimming muscles and hence the tiny body in relation to its ferocious-looking head.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;Picture 2:&lt;/b&gt; Oreo fish (Neocyttus rhomboidalis). While the adult stage (top) has a weird prehistoric shape, juveniles (bottom 2 images) have incredibly alien-like features.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;Picture 3:&lt;/b&gt; As opposed to the other fishes on this post, these juvenile toadfish (&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;Chaunax pictus&lt;/i&gt;) look rather lovable!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;Picture 4:&lt;/b&gt; Lancetfish (&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;Alepisaurus briverostris&lt;/i&gt;) have a massive head, incredible teeth and a serpentine body that can attain 2m in length. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6810682219259613039?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6810682219259613039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/here-are-some-strange-and-particularly.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6810682219259613039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6810682219259613039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/here-are-some-strange-and-particularly.html' title='Here are some strange and particularly frightening looking fish from the deep!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN7Coa58BSI/AAAAAAAAAio/3LPt2AdfVwA/s72-c/Melanocetus%2Bjohnsoni.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-1645788698460517793</id><published>2010-11-12T11:53:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-12T12:04:03.078+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Zooplankton, miniature aliens</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN0e90TLESI/AAAAAAAAAiI/DB2wHnaB6UA/s1600/CCV_4621.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN0e90TLESI/AAAAAAAAAiI/DB2wHnaB6UA/s400/CCV_4621.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538617164095492386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN0eWwbhULI/AAAAAAAAAiA/hODJUm8Uldk/s1600/CCV_4974.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 376px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN0eWwbhULI/AAAAAAAAAiA/hODJUm8Uldk/s400/CCV_4974.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538616493041864882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;During the seamounts cruise, specialized nets were regularly deployed to capture zooplankton; tiny creatures that drift in the open ocean and feed predominantly on even smaller plant-like organisms called phytoplankton. Zooplankton comprise several groups of small pelagic animals such as krill, jellyfish and fish larvae and because they are incredibly abundant, form an integral part of the marine ecosystem. Notably, they are the primary food source for a variety of fish and sea mammals including the largest animal on earth; the blue whale. The objectives of the plankton netting survey were primarily to determine species diversity and to estimate abundance around seamounts. Workshop participants Riaan Cedras and Gildas Todinanahary calculate the volume of zooplankton biomass per unit of water trawled over the seamounts (the collection net was fitted with a water-flow meter). Then they extract random samples from each lot (there are too many creatures to count, never mind identify!) and stare through their high-powered microscopes for hours on end to identify the tiny creatures.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;Picture 1:&lt;/b&gt; Gildas (left) and Riaan hold up examples of zooplankton captured over seamounts using ‘bongo nets’.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;Picture 2:&lt;/b&gt; Examples of larger zooplankton species: A = Krill, B = Benthic Polychaete, C = Chaetognath, D = Pelagic Polychaete, E = Larvae of a fish and a squid, F = Amphipod (The movie “Aliens” was inspired by a similar species to this one!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-1645788698460517793?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/1645788698460517793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/zooplankton-miniature-aliens.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1645788698460517793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1645788698460517793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/zooplankton-miniature-aliens.html' title='Zooplankton, miniature aliens'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TN0e90TLESI/AAAAAAAAAiI/DB2wHnaB6UA/s72-c/CCV_4621.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-7909888774288924710</id><published>2010-11-11T12:23:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-11T12:26:36.382+01:00</updated><title type='text'>See how busy the scientists are!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UQpu2gswSuo?hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UQpu2gswSuo?hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-7909888774288924710?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/7909888774288924710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7909888774288924710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7909888774288924710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post.html' title='See how busy the scientists are!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-8221299589707625508</id><published>2010-11-10T17:43:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-11T08:01:26.717+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Calamari anyone?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TNrODgbtoAI/AAAAAAAAAhw/WYRiX2dyYNw/s1600/CCV_4582_1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 289px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TNrODgbtoAI/AAAAAAAAAhw/WYRiX2dyYNw/s400/CCV_4582_1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537965251446546434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TNrN5Reo47I/AAAAAAAAAho/QAQnxylmHVk/s1600/CCV_4558%2Bcopy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 218px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TNrN5Reo47I/AAAAAAAAAho/QAQnxylmHVk/s400/CCV_4558%2Bcopy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537965075633595314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px; "&gt;Dr. Vladimir Laptikhovsky and Amy Taylor have been examining the Cephalopods (squids) collected during the seamounts cruise in 2009. There are around 300 species of squid that live in the open ocean and larger individuals tend to inhabit progressively deeper waters. Squid are considered the most highly developed of all invertebrates due to their sophisticated nervous and circulatory system, and the fact that they continue to survive in the absence of a hard outer shell. By squirting water out through their siphons, they dart through the water column and catch fish with their tentacles. Using this jet propulsion, they are capable of extreme speeds and some even launch out of the water to ‘fly’ for considerable distances. Their skins are covered in chromatophores which enable them to instantly change color to suite their surroundings and effectively become invisible when they need to. Some species are also able to eject dark ink into the surrounding water to temporarily confuse attacking predators.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;In these first three days of the workshop, Vladimir and Amy have already identified approximately 30 different species… two of which have not been collected before in the Indian Ocean!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;Picture 1: Dr. Laptikhovsky and Amy Taylor.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;Picture 2: Some interesting examples of squid species: &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;A) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;Onychoteuthis sp:&lt;/i&gt; This species is known for its elaborate hooks at the ends of its tentacles which aid it in grasping its prey more securely. &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"&gt;B)&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;Pyroteuthis margarititera&lt;/i&gt;: Being less streamline, this squid probably relies more on camouflage than speed. &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;C)&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"&gt;Pterygioteuthis giardi&lt;/i&gt;: The smallest species known to man! &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"&gt;D)&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;Cranchia scabra:&lt;/i&gt; Although probably quite slow, this squid has some elaborate defense mechanisms. Firstly, it can suck its head and tentacles into its mantel cavity! Next, it injects ink into the cavity and because the mantel is translucent, it is able to match the color of the surrounding water and become invisible. In case all this fails, it sports tiny spikes all along its outside which may irritate the alimentary canals of some predators.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-8221299589707625508?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/8221299589707625508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/dr.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8221299589707625508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8221299589707625508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/dr.html' title='Calamari anyone?'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TNrODgbtoAI/AAAAAAAAAhw/WYRiX2dyYNw/s72-c/CCV_4582_1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-7192708678894703818</id><published>2010-11-09T17:19:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-11T16:49:51.428+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The work begins!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TNl3u2RrvrI/AAAAAAAAAhA/5bbvQH3ciWs/s1600/CCV_4527.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; 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line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;Twenty one scientists and students representing seven countries have gathered in Grahamstown at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) to identify some 7000 samples collected during the seamounts cruise in 2009. Workshop participants include: Alex Rogers (UK, Oxford University); James Mclaine (UK, Natural History Museum); Jane Read (UK, National Oceanography Centre); Julian Badcock (UK, Natural History Museum); Kirsty Kemp (UK, Zoological Society of London); Monica Mwale (SA, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity); Nicole Du Plessis (SA, University of Cape Town); Nkosinathi Masangula (SA, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity); Oddgeir Alvheim (Norway, Institute of Marine Research); Peter Konstantinidis (UK, Natural History Museum); Philipp Boersch-Supan (UK, Oxford University); Stela Fernando (Mozambique, National Institute of Fisheries Research); Rainer von Brandis (SA, International Union for Conservation of Nature); Riaan Cedras (SA, University of the Western Cape); Eric Anderson (SA, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity), Tinus Sonnekus (SA, Nelson Mandela&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Metropolitan University); Tom Bornman (SA, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity); Vijay Mangar (Mauritius, Albion Institute); Vladimir Laptikhovsky (Falklands, Fisheries Department); Amy Taylor (UK, Royal Holloway University of London) and Gildas Todinanahary (Madagascar, University of Toliara)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;After familiarizing themselves with the laboratory facilities, participants eagerly fell in behind their microscopes and began working through intimidating rows of jars containing fishes, squids, zooplankton and other interesting creatures. Many specimens look similar to each other and scientists have to use elaborate morphological features such as muscle orientation and gut length to differentiate between them. Although no new species have been discovered as yet, the really interesting samples from the colder waters are still to be brought to the workbench during the ensuing week. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;First picture: A jar of lanternfishes wait to be scrutinized by Peter Konstantinidis. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;Second picture: Hatchetfish (&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"&gt;Argyropelecus aculatus&lt;/i&gt;). These small (5cm), unusually shaped deep sea fish use bioluminescence (lights on their bodies) to escape predators. By matching the light intensity of their bodies with the light penetrating the water from above, the fish does not appear darker if seen from below and can therefore not be seen by predators.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph; line-height:150%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-7192708678894703818?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/7192708678894703818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/work-begins.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-529932441218844876</id><published>2010-11-05T12:06:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-05T15:25:28.994+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Let the taxonomic analysis begin!</title><content type='html'>Almost one full year on, the partners on the SW Indian Ocean seamounts project are ready to start the painstaking task of identifying and cataloguing many of the species sampled in the water column above the six seamounts visited during the 40-day expedition in late 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the nearly 7000 samples gathered, there are almost certainly going to be previously-undiscovered species as well as new information on where known species congregate, what they eat and how they behave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The results of this exercise will not only have a scientific interest, but will directly feed into recommendations to help improve conservation and management of Indian Ocean resources and future management of deep-sea ecosystems in the high seas globally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IUCN, on behalf of all the partners in the project (GEF, ASCLME, EAF-Nansen, ACEP, ECOMAR and the Zoological Society of London) as well as the Total Foundation and Censeam, who have financially supported this workshop, wish the taxonomists success in their endeavours and invite all interested parties to Watch This Space for breaking stories!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-529932441218844876?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/529932441218844876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2010/11/let-taxonomic-analysis-begin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link 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type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Have a look at the full story of the 6-weeks cruise on BBC Earth News, with several picture galleries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8363000/8363108.stm"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498506950841608674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TE6e8H_uKeI/AAAAAAAAAfo/hjOGm7IUPdM/s320/BBC+EarthNews.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-2575106592975792373?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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First glimpse of land in weeks!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498507885673357506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TE6fyig-oMI/AAAAAAAAAfw/ytoNf3OStTQ/s320/DSC_0331.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6818005489063184590?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6818005489063184590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/land-ahead.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6818005489063184590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6818005489063184590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/land-ahead.html' title='Land ahead!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/TE6fyig-oMI/AAAAAAAAAfw/ytoNf3OStTQ/s72-c/DSC_0331.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-3935674890365692449</id><published>2009-12-16T14:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-16T14:22:05.793+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Joyeux anni!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Un très joyeux anniversaire à Patrick!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Syje5qg5r5I/AAAAAAAAAe0/Lnbbegv2W0k/s1600-h/cake.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Syje5qg5r5I/AAAAAAAAAe0/Lnbbegv2W0k/s1600/cake.PNG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-3935674890365692449?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/3935674890365692449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/joyeux-anni.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/3935674890365692449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/3935674890365692449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/joyeux-anni.html' title='Joyeux anni!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Syje5qg5r5I/AAAAAAAAAe0/Lnbbegv2W0k/s72-c/cake.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-5243632373089235309</id><published>2009-12-15T09:51:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-15T14:19:44.216+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Marine tales for Christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;If you are looking for a special Christmas present: &lt;em&gt;Adrift, Tales of ocean fragility&lt;/em&gt; is a beautifully illustrated&amp;nbsp;book explaining the fragility of the marine world through&amp;nbsp;the stories of 12 charismatic and fascinating species.&amp;nbsp;Published by IUCN, this&amp;nbsp;book is a joint effort between IUCN's marine team and experts from across the globe to inform and inspire about marine conservation.&amp;nbsp;The story on deepwater corals was written by our Chief Scientist, Dr Alex David Rogers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SydMyZn1xmI/AAAAAAAAAeM/0KHvovM74B4/s1600-h/Adrift.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SydMyZn1xmI/AAAAAAAAAeM/0KHvovM74B4/s1600/Adrift.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;You can watch a short video for the book on YouTube &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ8fdJebHs4"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and buy the book &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.earthprint.com/productfocus.php?id=IUCN2251&amp;amp;q=adrift"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(in English only).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-5243632373089235309?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/5243632373089235309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/do-you-need-idea-for-christmas-present.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5243632373089235309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5243632373089235309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/do-you-need-idea-for-christmas-present.html' title='Marine tales for Christmas'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SydMyZn1xmI/AAAAAAAAAeM/0KHvovM74B4/s72-c/Adrift.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-7576274488536932915</id><published>2009-12-15T08:20:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-15T14:29:04.206+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy birthday!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;A very happy birthday to Charles!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyeO9G8s3kI/AAAAAAAAAeU/13II2QS-F3Q/s1600-h/cake.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyeO9G8s3kI/AAAAAAAAAeU/13II2QS-F3Q/s1600/cake.PNG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-7576274488536932915?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/7576274488536932915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-birthday_15.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7576274488536932915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7576274488536932915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-birthday_15.html' title='Happy birthday!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyeO9G8s3kI/AAAAAAAAAeU/13II2QS-F3Q/s72-c/cake.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6745209980518280100</id><published>2009-12-14T20:39:00.088+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-15T20:26:09.838+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Last trawls / Derniers chaluts</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We have just had our last two trawls of the cruise, this afternoon at Walters Shoal. Although most&amp;nbsp;species looked familiar, there are always some good&amp;nbsp;surprises, and this catch&amp;nbsp;included the first octopus of the expedition,&amp;nbsp;a ghost looking squid and a tiny crustacean larva with impressive spikes. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Nous venons de procéder à nos deux dernières pêches, cet après-midi sur Walters Shoal. Bien que la plupart des espèces nous était familière, il y a toujours quelques bonnes surprises, et cette capture&amp;nbsp;a inclu la première pieuvre de l'expédition, un calmar fantôme et une minuscule larve de crustacé avec ses piquants impressionnants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyfaLMmmzgI/AAAAAAAAAeY/j6ZIUVc0Xpc/s1600-h/12.14%20-%20Events%2028-29%20-%20Unidentified%20octopus_1%20-%20clean.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyfaLMmmzgI/AAAAAAAAAeY/j6ZIUVc0Xpc/s320/12.14%20-%20Events%2028-29%20-%20Unidentified%20octopus_1%20-%20clean.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyfaLKHBVRI/AAAAAAAAAec/jN2uz6VckGQ/s1600-h/12.14%20-%20Events%2028-29%20-%20Unidentified%20squid_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyfaLKHBVRI/AAAAAAAAAec/jN2uz6VckGQ/s320/12.14%20-%20Events%2028-29%20-%20Unidentified%20squid_1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyfaLVCA3MI/AAAAAAAAAeg/8dE2jm1mx_s/s1600-h/12.14%20-%20Events%2028-29%20-%20Crustacean%20larva%20front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyfaLVCA3MI/AAAAAAAAAeg/8dE2jm1mx_s/s1600/12.14%20-%20Events%2028-29%20-%20Crustacean%20larva%20front.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;This makes&amp;nbsp;us realise&amp;nbsp;how close we are to the end&amp;nbsp;of the expedition and&amp;nbsp;to setting foot on land again after several weeks&amp;nbsp;in a floating bumpy habitation.&amp;nbsp;While&amp;nbsp;all&amp;nbsp;of us are looking forward to being back home, it also feels a bit unreal...&amp;nbsp;In order to&amp;nbsp;be connected with the atmosphere that is awaiting us, we have gone through a little redecoration of the ship. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Cela nous fait réaliser que nous nous approchons de la fin de l'expédition et de notre premier pied à terre après plusieurs semaines dans une habitation flottante et instable. Si nous nous réjouissons tous de rentrer, cela semble un peu irréel... Aussi, afin de nous connecter à l'ambiance qui nous attend, nous avons entrepris de redécorer un peu le bateau.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyffykGrnDI/AAAAAAAAAes/NLRCmW3IjL4/s1600-h/DSC_0209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyffykGrnDI/AAAAAAAAAes/NLRCmW3IjL4/s320/DSC_0209.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Syfgcaau5nI/AAAAAAAAAew/DLzv44vAiXI/s1600-h/DSC_0195.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Syfgcaau5nI/AAAAAAAAAew/DLzv44vAiXI/s320/DSC_0195.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6745209980518280100?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6745209980518280100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/last-trawls-derniers-chaluts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6745209980518280100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6745209980518280100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/last-trawls-derniers-chaluts.html' title='Last trawls / Derniers chaluts'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyfaLMmmzgI/AAAAAAAAAeY/j6ZIUVc0Xpc/s72-c/12.14%20-%20Events%2028-29%20-%20Unidentified%20octopus_1%20-%20clean.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Afrique</georss:featurename><georss:point>-30.44867367928755 45.703125</georss:point><georss:box>-66.50225467928755 -14.0625 5.604907320712453 105.46875</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-3089108061611653289</id><published>2009-12-13T21:40:00.059+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T23:04:55.371+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Walters Shoal</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We've&amp;nbsp;left the southwest Indian Ocean Ridge on the 10th of December and steamed northward for two days&amp;nbsp;in order to reach&amp;nbsp;the last seamount that we will study during this cruise, south of Madagascar.&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;area&amp;nbsp;that we have reached is called Walters Shoal - some sort of enormous underwater plateau, with&amp;nbsp;areas&amp;nbsp;as shallow as 10 meters from the surface!&amp;nbsp;For our investigations, though, we had to go to deeper areas.&amp;nbsp;One of the main reasons we have decided to come here is that the region is known to attract seabirds, and Barau's petrel in particular,&amp;nbsp;that come to feed here at this time of year. We haven't encountered as many seabirds as expected... but at least, we're back in a&amp;nbsp;warm and very pleasant climate. The water is now 21°C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We've been fishing from one to seven AM this morning, and caught some beautiful specimens:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Shorthorn fangtooth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sya0yYxP8RI/AAAAAAAAAb8/1jl9D7WJGsE/s1600-h/12.12%20-%20Events%209-11%20-%20Anoplogaster%20cornuta%20-%20Shorthorn%20fangtooth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rs="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sya0yYxP8RI/AAAAAAAAAb8/1jl9D7WJGsE/s320/12.12%20-%20Events%209-11%20-%20Anoplogaster%20cornuta%20-%20Shorthorn%20fangtooth.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Flatfish larva&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sya0ykv3BAI/AAAAAAAAAcA/q44SlO3DM_8/s1600-h/12.12%20-%20Events%209-11%20-%20flatfish%20larvae.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rs="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sya0ykv3BAI/AAAAAAAAAcA/q44SlO3DM_8/s1600/12.12%20-%20Events%209-11%20-%20flatfish%20larvae.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Scorpionfish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sya0ysMnyxI/AAAAAAAAAcE/8V5TL4bDhfs/s1600-h/12.12%20-%20Events%209-11%20-%20Scorpaenidae%20-%20scorpionfish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rs="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sya0ysMnyxI/AAAAAAAAAcE/8V5TL4bDhfs/s320/12.12%20-%20Events%209-11%20-%20Scorpaenidae%20-%20scorpionfish.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Pelagic butterfish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sya0y8DtHLI/AAAAAAAAAcI/HgAgVfE7l3M/s1600-h/12.12%20-%20Events%209-11%20-%20Schedophilus%20maculatus%20-%20Pelagic%20butterfish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rs="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sya0y8DtHLI/AAAAAAAAAcI/HgAgVfE7l3M/s320/12.12%20-%20Events%209-11%20-%20Schedophilus%20maculatus%20-%20Pelagic%20butterfish.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nous avons quitté la ride ouest-indienne le 10 décembre, et avons transité en direction du nord pendant deux jours afin d'atteindre le dernier mont sous-marin que nous allons étudier pendant cette expédition, au sud de Madagascar.&amp;nbsp;La région&amp;nbsp;dans laquelle nous nous trouvons s'appelle&amp;nbsp;Walters Shoal - c'est une sorte d'énorme plateau submergé, avec des parties se situant à seulement 10 mètres de la surface! Cela dit, pour nos investigations, il nous a fallu aller vers des eaux plus profondes.&amp;nbsp;La raison qui nous a poussé à venir ici est principalement le petrel de Barau. Cette région est effectivement connue pour attirer les oiseaux marins, qui viennent se nourrir ici à cette saison.&amp;nbsp;Nous n'avons finalement pas rencontré autant d'oiseaux que nous l'espérions... mais&amp;nbsp;sommes au moins de retour dans un climat plus chaud et plus agréable. L'eau est maintenant à 21°C.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nous avons pêché de une à sept heures du matin, et avons attrapé de beaux spécimens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-3089108061611653289?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/3089108061611653289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/walters-shoal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/3089108061611653289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/3089108061611653289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/walters-shoal.html' title='Walters Shoal'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sya0yYxP8RI/AAAAAAAAAb8/1jl9D7WJGsE/s72-c/12.12%20-%20Events%209-11%20-%20Anoplogaster%20cornuta%20-%20Shorthorn%20fangtooth.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Afrique</georss:featurename><georss:point>-30.751277776257812 45.703125</georss:point><georss:box>-66.71974777625782 -14.0625 5.217192223742192 105.46875</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-4869173316591406256</id><published>2009-12-12T14:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T21:31:31.715+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Who is behind this all? / Qui se cache derrière tout cela?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;If you are curious to discover who is responsible for this all - just click on the image below!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.ch/gotheilsiucn/PortraitsJPG#"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414711580078813602" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyTrfmPKsaI/AAAAAAAAAbw/GLETOS9lugc/s320/Illustration+for+blog.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 237px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 308px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Si vous êtes curieux de découvrir qui est responsable de tout cela - cliquez simplement sur l'image!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-4869173316591406256?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/4869173316591406256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-is-behind-this-all-qui-se-cache.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4869173316591406256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4869173316591406256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-is-behind-this-all-qui-se-cache.html' title='Who is behind this all? / Qui se cache derrière tout cela?'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyTrfmPKsaI/AAAAAAAAAbw/GLETOS9lugc/s72-c/Illustration+for+blog.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-8092457949569195576</id><published>2009-12-11T18:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T18:31:39.726+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Phytoplankton of the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge / Phytoplancton de la ride ouest-indienne</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;By Dr Tom Bornman&amp;nbsp;and Mr Tinus Sonnekus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Phytoplankton (microscopic plants) produce half of the oxygen present in the Earth’s atmosphere. Phytoplankton obtain energy through the process of photosynthesis and are therefore restricted to the euphotic zone (depth of water in the ocean exposed to sufficient sunlight to allow for photosynthesis). Phytoplankton forms the base of the aquatic food web and the biomass, composition and distribution strongly influence the nature of oceanic food web dynamics. Without phytoplankton, there would be no life in the oceans... except for the species typically found at hydrothermal vents that do not live off solar energy (have a look at Kirsty’s presentation on the right if you are interested in these strange communities of species). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We found that diatoms formed the dominant phytoplankton group south of 36°S. They include the chain forming species belonging to the genus &lt;em&gt;Pseudonitzschia&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Chaetocerus&lt;/em&gt;; and large centrics such as &lt;em&gt;Planktoniella&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Coscinodiscus&lt;/em&gt; (see micrographs below). The stations north of Sapmer Seamount (including Atlantis Seamount) were characterized by low fluorescence, typical of tropical and subtropical water with low levels of nutrients (oligotrophic). The highest fluorescence was measured in the surface waters between the Subtropical Front and the Subantarctic Front around 40°S. In the Subantarctic water the important high latitude flagellate, &lt;em&gt;Phaeocystis&lt;/em&gt; sp. (probably &lt;em&gt;P. antarctica&lt;/em&gt;), made its appearance in large numbers, although diatoms remained the dominant group.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chaetocerus&lt;/em&gt; sp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyJ6Ba3m5YI/AAAAAAAAAYg/vIrN8_OB5wY/s1600-h/Chaetocerus%20sp.%20-%20%C2%A9%20Tom%20Bornman.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyJ6Ba3m5YI/AAAAAAAAAYg/vIrN8_OB5wY/s320/Chaetocerus%20sp.%20-%20%C2%A9%20Tom%20Bornman.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Conscinodiscus &lt;/em&gt;sp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyJ6Bpq4XXI/AAAAAAAAAYk/GBN7Naxe6wA/s1600-h/Conscinodiscus%20sp.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyJ6Bpq4XXI/AAAAAAAAAYk/GBN7Naxe6wA/s320/Conscinodiscus%20sp.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Planktoniella&lt;/em&gt; sp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyJ6BoiGAMI/AAAAAAAAAYo/804N4oaQmSU/s1600-h/Planktoniella%20sp.%20-%20%C2%A9%20Tom%20Bornman.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyJ6BoiGAMI/AAAAAAAAAYo/804N4oaQmSU/s320/Planktoniella%20sp.%20-%20%C2%A9%20Tom%20Bornman.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pseudonitzschia&lt;/em&gt; sp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyJ6BviGxBI/AAAAAAAAAYs/CbEr2Z8OFes/s1600-h/Pseudonitzschia%20sp.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyJ6BviGxBI/AAAAAAAAAYs/CbEr2Z8OFes/s320/Pseudonitzschia%20sp.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Tom Bornman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Le phytoplancton (plantes microscopiques) produit la moitié de l’oxygène présent dans l’atmosphère de la terre. Le phytoplancton obtient de l’énergie à travers le processus de photosynthèse, et se trouve de ce fait dans la zone euphotique (profondeur de la colonne d’eau exposée à suffisamment de lumière solaire pour permettre la photosynthèse). Le phytoplancton forme la base de la chaîne alimentaire aquatique, et sa biomasse, sa composition et sa distribution influencent de manière importante la nature des dynamiques de chaînes alimentaires océaniques. Si le phytoplancton n’existait pas, il n’y aurait pas de vie dans les océans… à l’exception de ces espèces que l’on trouve typiquement sur les cheminées hydrothermales, dont la vie ne dépend pas de l’énergie solaire (jetez un coup d’œil à la présentation de Kirsty sur la droite, si vous êtes intéressés par ces étranges communautés d’espèces). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nous avons découvert que les diatomées formaient le groupe dominant de phytoplancton au sud de 36°S. Ce groupe inclut des espèces formant des chaînes telles que les espèces appartenant aux genres&lt;em&gt; Pseudonitzschia&lt;/em&gt; et &lt;em&gt;Chaetocerus&lt;/em&gt;; et des espèces à formes circulaires appartenant aux genres &lt;em&gt;Planktoniella&lt;/em&gt; et &lt;em&gt;Coscinodiscus&lt;/em&gt; (voir les micrographiques ci-dessous). Les stations situées au nord du mont Sapmer (et incluant le mont Atlantis) étaient caractérisées par une basse fluorescence, typique des eaux tropicales et subtropicales, contenant un niveau peu élevé de nutriments (oligotrophique). La fluorescence la plus élevée a été mesurée dans les eaux de surface entre la convergence subtropicale et la convergence subantarctique, autour de 40°S. Dans les eaux subantarctiques, les importants flagellés des hautes latitudes, &lt;em&gt;Phaeocystis&lt;/em&gt; sp. (probablement &lt;em&gt;P. Antarctica&lt;/em&gt;), sont apparus en grand nombre, bien que les diatomées soient resté le groupe dominant. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-8092457949569195576?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/8092457949569195576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/phytoplankton-of-southwest-indian-ocean.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8092457949569195576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8092457949569195576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/phytoplankton-of-southwest-indian-ocean.html' title='Phytoplankton of the Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge / Phytoplancton de la ride ouest-indienne'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyJ6Ba3m5YI/AAAAAAAAAYg/vIrN8_OB5wY/s72-c/Chaetocerus%20sp.%20-%20%C2%A9%20Tom%20Bornman.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-34.3 44.1333333</georss:point><georss:box>-43.354589999999995 29.191926799999997 -25.24541 59.074739799999996</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-2020539763786505714</id><published>2009-12-10T16:42:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T19:33:57.496+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Latest update on BBC Earth News</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Have a look at BBC Earth News to get the latest update on our adventures in the roaring forties, to view a new beautiful picture gallery... and get more answers on why we actually are here! (in English only)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8363000/8363108.stm" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKH2OGmUSI/AAAAAAAAAYw/sUO5D5A1kZU/s1600/Week%204%20BBC%20image.JPG" border="0" ps="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-2020539763786505714?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/2020539763786505714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/latest-update-on-bbc-earth-news.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2020539763786505714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2020539763786505714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/latest-update-on-bbc-earth-news.html' title='Latest update on BBC Earth News'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKH2OGmUSI/AAAAAAAAAYw/sUO5D5A1kZU/s72-c/Week%204%20BBC%20image.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6433800227896377334</id><published>2009-12-09T20:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T20:47:05.863+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Melville</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We've left the roaring forties to&amp;nbsp;study Melville bank,&amp;nbsp;the last seamount that we will be investigating on the southwest Indian Ocean Ridge. The wind and waves have accompanied us for a few days now, and our fishing night&amp;nbsp;was rather...&amp;nbsp;rock'n'roll! No doubt we have moved further north, as the species are very different from the ones we found on Coral. They are actually very similar to the species encountered on the first seamounts that we have studied - you may recognise these two&amp;nbsp;hatchetfish and the squid?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKfQxvbxtI/AAAAAAAAAZA/F_OsGUaAQZI/s1600-h/Copy%20of%20DSC_0151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKfQxvbxtI/AAAAAAAAAZA/F_OsGUaAQZI/s320/Copy%20of%20DSC_0151.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKfQ76DomI/AAAAAAAAAZE/z-sH1OUeTtM/s1600-h/Copy%20of%20DSC_0152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKfQ76DomI/AAAAAAAAAZE/z-sH1OUeTtM/s320/Copy%20of%20DSC_0152.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKfRBxZnQI/AAAAAAAAAZI/yFOW0l7hpUg/s1600-h/Copy%20of%20DSC_0156.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKfRBxZnQI/AAAAAAAAAZI/yFOW0l7hpUg/s320/Copy%20of%20DSC_0156.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nous avons quitté les quarantièmes rugissants pour étudier Melville, le dernier mont sous-marin que nous allons investiguer sur la&amp;nbsp;dorsale ouest-indienne.&amp;nbsp;Le vent et les vagues&amp;nbsp;nous accompagnent depuis quelques jours maintenant, et la nuit de pêche a été plutôt... rock'n'roll! Cela ne fait aucun doute que nous avons&amp;nbsp;rejoint des eaux plus au nord,&amp;nbsp;car les espèces sont très différentes de celles que nous avons trouvées sur Corail.&amp;nbsp;Elles sont en fait très similaires aux espèces récoltées sur les premiers&amp;nbsp;monts sous-marins&amp;nbsp;que nous avons étudiés&amp;nbsp;- vous reconnaissez peut-être les poissons hachette et le calmar?&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6433800227896377334?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6433800227896377334/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/melville.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6433800227896377334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6433800227896377334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/melville.html' title='Melville'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKfQxvbxtI/AAAAAAAAAZA/F_OsGUaAQZI/s72-c/Copy%20of%20DSC_0151.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-38.4666667 46.7666667</georss:point><georss:box>-40.6171052 43.0313152 -36.3162282 50.5020182</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-2639972196294815659</id><published>2009-12-08T15:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T19:45:45.916+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Triple cakes</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;To the greatest delight of the three birthday men (and the rest of the crew!), our generous Chief Steward prepared three beautiful cakes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Henning's has been eaten already...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKSbIdqSiI/AAAAAAAAAY0/KznFcuUb2VA/s1600-h/Copy%20of%20DSC_0196.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKSbIdqSiI/AAAAAAAAAY0/KznFcuUb2VA/s320/Copy%20of%20DSC_0196.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;And Tom's a happy scientist!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKSbKWALxI/AAAAAAAAAY4/1JdYJdwhNdM/s1600-h/Copy%20of%20DSC_0197.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKSbKWALxI/AAAAAAAAAY4/1JdYJdwhNdM/s320/Copy%20of%20DSC_0197.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-2639972196294815659?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/2639972196294815659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/triple-cakes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2639972196294815659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2639972196294815659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/triple-cakes.html' title='Triple cakes'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKSbIdqSiI/AAAAAAAAAY0/KznFcuUb2VA/s72-c/Copy%20of%20DSC_0196.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-1754606481033779794</id><published>2009-12-08T08:31:00.023+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T12:09:45.634+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Triple happy birthday!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;A very happy birthday to Åge, Henning and Tom!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0kMughJyI/AAAAAAAAAX4/FbACkeSzh9Y/s1600-h/cake%201.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0kMughJyI/AAAAAAAAAX4/FbACkeSzh9Y/s1600/cake%201.PNG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0kM9NIn0I/AAAAAAAAAX8/Ut2qE5RJoIY/s1600-h/cake%202.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0kM9NIn0I/AAAAAAAAAX8/Ut2qE5RJoIY/s1600/cake%202.PNG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0kM7H1EcI/AAAAAAAAAYA/Kb_o01b38w0/s1600-h/cake%203.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0kM7H1EcI/AAAAAAAAAYA/Kb_o01b38w0/s1600/cake%203.PNG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-1754606481033779794?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/1754606481033779794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/triple-happy-birthday.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1754606481033779794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1754606481033779794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/triple-happy-birthday.html' title='Triple happy birthday!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0kMughJyI/AAAAAAAAAX4/FbACkeSzh9Y/s72-c/cake%201.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6910039775377602406</id><published>2009-12-07T16:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T16:31:09.434+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Unforgettable day / Jour inoubliable</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;The kids from the school Baies roses have a great memory of the visit of the Nansen. We invited them for a tour on the vessel while it was at port, in Reunion, on November 10. They’re telling their memories in the December edition of their school journal, accompanied with great drawings! (in French only)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0SasQSmLI/AAAAAAAAAXc/j_XfUWBi7xY/s1600-h/Petits%20reporters%20de%20baies%20roses%20-%201.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0SasQSmLI/AAAAAAAAAXc/j_XfUWBi7xY/s320/Petits%20reporters%20de%20baies%20roses%20-%201.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0TOSkRymI/AAAAAAAAAXg/iuqjLnF-HuE/s1600-h/Petits%20reporters%20de%20baies%20roses%20-%202.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0TOSkRymI/AAAAAAAAAXg/iuqjLnF-HuE/s320/Petits%20reporters%20de%20baies%20roses%20-%202.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0UZUVgKII/AAAAAAAAAXk/TtQgJg953eM/s1600-h/Petits%20reporters%20de%20baies%20roses%20-%203.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0UZUVgKII/AAAAAAAAAXk/TtQgJg953eM/s320/Petits%20reporters%20de%20baies%20roses%20-%203.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0U5s3i3KI/AAAAAAAAAXo/vj-EnfWTBlw/s1600-h/Petits%20reporters%20de%20baies%20roses%20-%204.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0U5s3i3KI/AAAAAAAAAXo/vj-EnfWTBlw/s320/Petits%20reporters%20de%20baies%20roses%20-%204.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Les élèves de l’école Baies roses ont gardé un très bon souvenir de leur visite du Nansen. Nous les avions invité à faire le tour du bateau alors que celui-ci était au port, à la Réunion, le 10 novembre dernier. Ils racontent leurs souvenirs dans l’édition du mois de décembre du journal de l’école, souvenirs qu’ils ont accompagnés de beaux dessins !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6910039775377602406?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6910039775377602406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/unforgettable-day-jour-inoubliable.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6910039775377602406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6910039775377602406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/unforgettable-day-jour-inoubliable.html' title='Unforgettable day / Jour inoubliable'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sx0SasQSmLI/AAAAAAAAAXc/j_XfUWBi7xY/s72-c/Petits%20reporters%20de%20baies%20roses%20-%201.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-5211572488562584050</id><published>2009-12-06T19:53:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T20:22:40.388+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Coral seamount / Mont sous-marin Corail</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;By Alex Rogers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Coral Seamount was designated a voluntary Benthic Protected Area by the Southern Indian Ocean Deep-Sea Fishers Association because it hosted deep-sea corals. We found that the fauna of the waters surrounding Coral Seamount was different to the other seamounts we surveyed. A species of small cardinal fish (&lt;em&gt;Rosenblattia&lt;/em&gt;) was found in deep water at night time. Species of fish usually associated with seamounts were not caught in our pelagic trawls but instead a species of rattail fish was found that occurs in Australia, New Zealand and the Madagascar Ridge. Small silvery lantern fish, Maurolicus were also common in the catches but squids were much less abundant and diverse. The crustacean fauna was also different with some large prawns taken in deeper trawls. We had crossed into quite different waters, much colder and more typical of the Sub-Antarctic regions than the waters north of the sub-tropical front. This also showed in the birds surrounding the ship which were dominated by Southern Ocean species such as wandering albatross, cape pigeons (photo) and prions. The weather also lived up to the fearsome reputation of the roaring forties. After a few days of relative calm we were punished by five days of gale force westerly winds that battered the ship for the last few days work at Coral Seamount and pursued us all the way to Melville Bank, 140nm to the north. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKXKZGnfMI/AAAAAAAAAY8/dSxsheJRXm8/s1600-h/Damier%20du%20cap%20-%20Patrick%20Pinet.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ps="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKXKZGnfMI/AAAAAAAAAY8/dSxsheJRXm8/s320/Damier%20du%20cap%20-%20Patrick%20Pinet.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Patrick Pinet &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Parce qu’il abrite une communauté de coraux d’eaux profondes, le mont sous-marin Corail a été établi de manière volontaire comme une aire benthique protégée par l’association des pêcheurs en eaux profondes de l’océan Indien. Nous avons découvert que la faune habitant les eaux environnant le mont Corail était différente de celle que nous avions trouvée aux alentours des autres monts sous-marins étudiés. Nous avons trouvé un petit spécimen de l’espèce &lt;em&gt;Rosenblattia&lt;/em&gt; pendant la nuit, à une grande profondeur. Nous n’avons pas attrapé d’espèces habituellement associées avec les monts sous-marins, et, à la place, avons pêché une espèce de poisson-à-queue-de-rat que l’on trouve généralement en Australie, en Nouvelle Zélande et sur la ride de Madagascar. Les petits poissons lanternes Maurolicus étaient nombreux, au contraire des calmars, peu abondants et divers. La faune de crustacés était également différente et comportait de larges crevettes venues de grandes profondeurs. Il est évident que nous avons rejoint des eaux plus froides et plus typiques des régions subantarctiques, différentes de celles que l’on trouve au nord de la convergence subtropicale. Les espèces d’oiseaux marins accompagnant le bateau, principalement des albatros hurleurs, des prions et des damiers du cap (photo), témoignent également du changement de climat. Malheureusement, le temps est resté fidèle à son effrayante réputation de « quarantièmes rugissant ». Après quelques jours de calme relatif, nous avons été punis par cinq jours d’un fort vent d’ouest qui a martelé le bateau pendant nos derniers jours au-dessus de Corail et en chemin vers le mont Melville, situé à 140mn au nord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-5211572488562584050?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/5211572488562584050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/coral-seamount-mont-sous-marin-corail.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5211572488562584050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5211572488562584050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/coral-seamount-mont-sous-marin-corail.html' title='Coral seamount / Mont sous-marin Corail'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SyKXKZGnfMI/AAAAAAAAAY8/dSxsheJRXm8/s72-c/Damier%20du%20cap%20-%20Patrick%20Pinet.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-119830544608819593</id><published>2009-12-06T14:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-06T14:53:54.840+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy birthday!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;A very happy birthday to Signe, our caring catering assistant!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sxu2xY-6w7I/AAAAAAAAAXI/2ZJThqEz9ro/s1600-h/happy%20birthday%20png.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sxu2xY-6w7I/AAAAAAAAAXI/2ZJThqEz9ro/s400/happy%20birthday%20png.PNG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-119830544608819593?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/119830544608819593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-birthday.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/119830544608819593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/119830544608819593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-birthday.html' title='Happy birthday!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sxu2xY-6w7I/AAAAAAAAAXI/2ZJThqEz9ro/s72-c/happy%20birthday%20png.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-2574656363496581635</id><published>2009-12-05T13:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T13:48:34.946+01:00</updated><title type='text'>What is the link? / Quel est le lien?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;You remember the cute little fish that&amp;nbsp;looks a bit&amp;nbsp;like a dog from the front.&amp;nbsp;Here it is again, from the side. Any idea what&amp;nbsp;is the link between it and the&amp;nbsp;other fish below?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Vous vous souvenez du petit poisson qui ressemble un peu à un chien depuis devant. Voici une photo de son profil. Avez-vous&amp;nbsp;une idée du lien entre ce poisson&amp;nbsp;et celui du dessous?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpQfrT8KeI/AAAAAAAAAWo/leAHZ86Kzzo/s1600-h/DSC_0214.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpQfrT8KeI/AAAAAAAAAWo/leAHZ86Kzzo/s320/DSC_0214.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpQf_RCuKI/AAAAAAAAAWs/ytm4I17-YgU/s1600-h/orene012_Neocyttus%20rhomboidalis.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpQf_RCuKI/AAAAAAAAAWs/ytm4I17-YgU/s320/orene012_Neocyttus%20rhomboidalis.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;They're both oreos (&lt;em&gt;Neocyttus rhomboidalis&lt;/em&gt;), at juvenile and adult stages!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Ce sont des oréos&amp;nbsp;(Neocyttus rhomboidalis),&amp;nbsp;aux stades juvénile et&amp;nbsp;adulte!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-2574656363496581635?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/2574656363496581635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-is-link.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2574656363496581635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2574656363496581635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-is-link.html' title='What is the link? / Quel est le lien?'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpQfrT8KeI/AAAAAAAAAWo/leAHZ86Kzzo/s72-c/DSC_0214.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-41.0 42.0</georss:point><georss:box>-73.517368 -17.765625 -8.482632000000002 101.765625</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-8271485966765106254</id><published>2009-12-04T18:17:00.067+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T15:02:52.895+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Whalebones on Coral / Os de baleine sur Corail</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;A stack of whalebones and mango tree branches&amp;nbsp;has been sunk on Coral seamount today. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Un tas&amp;nbsp;d'os de baleine et de branches de&amp;nbsp;manguier ont été coulé sur le mont Corail aujourd'hui.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Kirsty is preparing the transponder, the device that will allow us to find and recover the bones in two years time, when the second cruise is in the area. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Kirsty est en train de préparer le transpondeur, cet appareil qui va permettre de retrouver les os dans deux ans, lorsque la seconde expédition sera dans la région.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpelIlRB0I/AAAAAAAAAWw/UQQTCo1ewww/s1600-h/DSC_0098.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpelIlRB0I/AAAAAAAAAWw/UQQTCo1ewww/s320/DSC_0098.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;The transponder is securely fixed to the ropes attached to the stack of bones/wood. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Le&amp;nbsp;transpondeur est soigneusement fixé aux cordes rattachées au tas d'os/de bois.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpelPTi0qI/AAAAAAAAAW0/Z0XSXZuCC0M/s1600-h/DSC_0108.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpelPTi0qI/AAAAAAAAAW0/Z0XSXZuCC0M/s320/DSC_0108.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;and is about to be sent&amp;nbsp;overboard... &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;et est sur le point&amp;nbsp;d'être jeté par-dessus bord...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpelIOF2DI/AAAAAAAAAW8/f4_HZAp8ztY/s1600-h/DSC_0121.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpelIOF2DI/AAAAAAAAAW8/f4_HZAp8ztY/s320/DSC_0121.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;...together with a little tribute to Kirsty. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;... avec&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; un petit hommage à Kirsty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpelONotKI/AAAAAAAAAW4/-H0vGnLs4T0/s1600-h/DSC_0112.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpelONotKI/AAAAAAAAAW4/-H0vGnLs4T0/s320/DSC_0112.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;As a reminder, the purpose is to&amp;nbsp;study the communities that will have colonised the bones. In particular, species of worms named snot flower worms, as we do not know anything about them for the Indian Ocean.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Pour petit rappel, le but est d'étudier les communautés qui auront colonisé les os. En particulier, une espèce de vers appelée "fleur de morve". Nous n'avons effectivement aucune donnée sur cette espèce pour l'océan Indien.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpkItPNS6I/AAAAAAAAAXA/CfxY6BXY4ik/s1600-h/Snot%20flower%20worm%20-%20Osedax%20mucofloris%20Live%20dissected%20out%20bone%20-%20%C2%A9%20Adrian%20Glover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpkItPNS6I/AAAAAAAAAXA/CfxY6BXY4ik/s320/Snot%20flower%20worm%20-%20Osedax%20mucofloris%20Live%20dissected%20out%20bone%20-%20%C2%A9%20Adrian%20Glover.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Adrian Glover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-8271485966765106254?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/8271485966765106254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/whalebones-on-coral-os-de-baleine-sur.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8271485966765106254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8271485966765106254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/whalebones-on-coral-os-de-baleine-sur.html' title='Whalebones on Coral / Os de baleine sur Corail'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpelIlRB0I/AAAAAAAAAWw/UQQTCo1ewww/s72-c/DSC_0098.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-41.0 42.0</georss:point><georss:box>-73.517368 -17.765625 -8.482632000000002 101.765625</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-4860612683344718184</id><published>2009-12-03T11:18:00.022+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T13:51:27.398+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Crustaceans / Crustacés</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We have spent the night fishing on Coral seamount, with&amp;nbsp;a trawl going as deep as 900m. This deepest trawl was actually an amazing catch, and the bucket was overflowing with marine creatures.&amp;nbsp;Among the species caught, some beautiful specimens of crustaceans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nous avons passé la nuit à pêcher au-dessus du mont Corail, jusqu'à&amp;nbsp;une profondeur de 900m.&amp;nbsp;Le chalut le plus profond&amp;nbsp;nous a ramené une&amp;nbsp;prise incroyable, et le sceau débordait de créatures marines. Parmi les espèces pêchées, nous avons quelques beaux spécimens de crustacés.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpIWu3Dw4I/AAAAAAAAAWY/AAYvJN2w7-Q/s1600-h/Copy%20of%20DSC_0048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpIWu3Dw4I/AAAAAAAAAWY/AAYvJN2w7-Q/s320/Copy%20of%20DSC_0048.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpIWh5IFiI/AAAAAAAAAWc/EaQ7N0HiAyg/s1600-h/Funchalia%20taaningi%20-%20900m%20-%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpIWh5IFiI/AAAAAAAAAWc/EaQ7N0HiAyg/s320/Funchalia%20taaningi%20-%20900m%20-%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpIW7H4FrI/AAAAAAAAAWg/gEKLrpYDd78/s1600-h/Gnatophausia%20-%20900m%20-%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpIW7H4FrI/AAAAAAAAAWg/gEKLrpYDd78/s320/Gnatophausia%20-%20900m%20-%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-4860612683344718184?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/4860612683344718184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/crustaceans-crustaces.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4860612683344718184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4860612683344718184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/crustaceans-crustaces.html' title='Crustaceans / Crustacés'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxpIWu3Dw4I/AAAAAAAAAWY/AAYvJN2w7-Q/s72-c/Copy%20of%20DSC_0048.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-41.0 42.0</georss:point><georss:box>-43.0728715 38.2646485 -38.9271285 45.7353515</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-7581443206872879774</id><published>2009-12-02T15:29:00.086+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-04T17:25:34.369+01:00</updated><title type='text'>When fish look like dogs / Quand les poissons ressemblent à des chiens</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sxktr-GYJjI/AAAAAAAAAWA/yRpl7vqdDbI/s1600-h/Copy%20of%20Coral%20Seamount%20BPA%20-%20SW%20Indian%20Ridge%20-%205000m%20to%20212m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sxktr-GYJjI/AAAAAAAAAWA/yRpl7vqdDbI/s320/Copy%20of%20Coral%20Seamount%20BPA%20-%20SW%20Indian%20Ridge%20-%205000m%20to%20212m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© SIODFA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;This morning we've reached&amp;nbsp;the southernmost seamount of all seamounts that we have planned to study, named Coral. This feature has&amp;nbsp;been set aside on a voluntary basis as a&amp;nbsp;benthic protected area by the&amp;nbsp;Southern Indian Ocean Deepsea Fishers Association. As its name indicate,&amp;nbsp;coral communities are thriving on&amp;nbsp;it and are now protected from impacts&amp;nbsp;of bottom fishing gear.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nous sommes arrivé au-dessus du mont sous-marin le plus au sud des monts que nous avons planifié d'étudier. Il s'appelle Corail et a été établi de&amp;nbsp;manière volontaire&amp;nbsp;comme une aire benthique protégée par l'Assocation des pêcheurs des grands fond du sud de l'océan Indien. Comme son nom l'indique, des communautés de corail vivent sur ce mont, et sont maitenant protégés des impacts des chaluts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Accompanied by&amp;nbsp;seabirds,&amp;nbsp;we have&amp;nbsp;deployed two trawls during the day, at&amp;nbsp;800 and 600 meters depth&amp;nbsp;respectively.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Accompagnés d'oiseaux marins, nous avons déployé deux filets&amp;nbsp;pendant la journée, à 800 et 600 mètres de profondeur respectivement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxkwZjfUn9I/AAAAAAAAAWE/dd7EuzVYogU/s1600-h/DSC_0070%20LR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxkwZjfUn9I/AAAAAAAAAWE/dd7EuzVYogU/s320/DSC_0070%20LR.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxkwZuHroyI/AAAAAAAAAWI/zlI4UXNrF-M/s1600-h/DSC_0098%20LR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxkwZuHroyI/AAAAAAAAAWI/zlI4UXNrF-M/s320/DSC_0098%20LR.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;While we've caught many interesting creatures, the cutest was certainly this juvenile oreo, that bears some strange resemblance to... a dog!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Alors que nous avons attrapé de nombreuses créatures intéressantes, la plus mignonne est certainement cet&amp;nbsp;oréo juvénile, qui ressemble étrangement à... un chien!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxkxrQkC-VI/AAAAAAAAAWM/QXrURUWNcXo/s1600-h/DSC_0232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxkxrQkC-VI/AAAAAAAAAWM/QXrURUWNcXo/s320/DSC_0232.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxkxrXLymyI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/6ppIs7gK90M/s1600-h/DSC_0237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" er="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxkxrXLymyI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/6ppIs7gK90M/s320/DSC_0237.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-7581443206872879774?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/7581443206872879774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/when-fish-look-like-dogs-quand-les.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7581443206872879774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7581443206872879774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/when-fish-look-like-dogs-quand-les.html' title='When fish look like dogs / Quand les poissons ressemblent à des chiens'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sxktr-GYJjI/AAAAAAAAAWA/yRpl7vqdDbI/s72-c/Copy%20of%20Coral%20Seamount%20BPA%20-%20SW%20Indian%20Ridge%20-%205000m%20to%20212m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Afrique</georss:featurename><georss:point>-41.0 42.0</georss:point><georss:box>-73.517368 -17.765625 -8.482632000000002 101.765625</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-7909866361930444006</id><published>2009-12-01T19:43:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T20:30:09.060+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Why we are here</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;You probably have a good idea by now of what we are doing... But do you actually know why we are doing all this? And why we have chosen seamounts on the southwest Indian Ocean Ridge? The latest update of our &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8363000/8363108.stm"&gt;seamount diary on BBC Earth News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://draft.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1259690331877"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1259690331878"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; will give you all the answers, together with a beautiful picture gallery! (in English only)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8363000/8363108.stm" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxVig7qoiUI/AAAAAAAAAV8/e93qY3XIecA/s200/illustration%20BBC%20week%203%20-%20jpg%20-%20seamount%20part.JPG" width="166" border="0" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-7909866361930444006?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/7909866361930444006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-we-are-here.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7909866361930444006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7909866361930444006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-we-are-here.html' title='Why we are here'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxVig7qoiUI/AAAAAAAAAV8/e93qY3XIecA/s72-c/illustration%20BBC%20week%203%20-%20jpg%20-%20seamount%20part.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-3928041485919085794</id><published>2009-11-30T20:42:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T20:58:19.617+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Different creatures / Créatures différentes</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;It's been an intense fishing day on this "off-ridge" site! We've started with collecting species yesterday, and continued all night, together with the accompanying activities that include&amp;nbsp;sorting the catch, labelling the specimens, extracting small samples for DNA analyis, photographying the species, and freezing or "ethanoling" them.&amp;nbsp;We've started the whole cycle again in the afternoon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;As expected and to our great delight, the creatures in this area are very different from what we have&amp;nbsp;seen until now.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Atolla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQdTTh2K0I/AAAAAAAAAVM/YKQq93cRuno/s1600/Jelly%20-%20Atolla%20-%20700m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQdTTh2K0I/AAAAAAAAAVM/YKQq93cRuno/s320/Jelly%20-%20Atolla%20-%20700m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Gigantocypris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQdTdJGLCI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/Ta5URtIenIo/s1600/Gigantocypris%20%20-%20side%20-%20700m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQdTdJGLCI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/Ta5URtIenIo/s320/Gigantocypris%20%20-%20side%20-%20700m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Eurythenes gryllus&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQdTkS6g9I/AAAAAAAAAVU/4GENE-JFSEM/s1600/Eurythenes%20gryllus%20-%20700m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQdTkS6g9I/AAAAAAAAAVU/4GENE-JFSEM/s320/Eurythenes%20gryllus%20-%20700m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.JPG" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Cela&amp;nbsp;aura été une journée intensive de&amp;nbsp;captures, sur ce site&amp;nbsp;à l'écart&amp;nbsp;de la ride ouest-indienne. Nous avons commencé&amp;nbsp;à pêcher&amp;nbsp;hier, et n'avons pas arrêté de la nuit. En effet, la pêche&amp;nbsp;implique toute une gamme d'activités, qui inclut&amp;nbsp;une procédure de&amp;nbsp;tri&amp;nbsp;de la capture, l'étiquetage des spécimens, l'extraction d'échantillons pour l'analyse génétique, la photographie des espèces et leur congélation ou leur '"ethanolisation". Nous avons recommencé le cycle dans l'après-midi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Comme prévu, et pour notre plus grand plaisir, les créatures de cette région&amp;nbsp;sont très différentes de celles&amp;nbsp;que nous avons vues jusqu'à&amp;nbsp;présent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-3928041485919085794?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/3928041485919085794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/different-creatures-creatures.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/3928041485919085794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/3928041485919085794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/different-creatures-creatures.html' title='Different creatures / Créatures différentes'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQdTTh2K0I/AAAAAAAAAVM/YKQq93cRuno/s72-c/Jelly%20-%20Atolla%20-%20700m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-41.5 49.5</georss:point><georss:box>-73.807609 -10.265625 -9.192391 109.265625</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-3819149157215619837</id><published>2009-11-29T16:36:00.099+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T21:04:12.538+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The purring forties / Les quarantièmes ronronnant</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;After close to two days of steaming, we have crossed the&amp;nbsp;sub-tropical front and&amp;nbsp;reached the off-ridge station we&amp;nbsp;have&amp;nbsp;planned to study. We are at about 41°C South, in what is known as the roaring forties...&amp;nbsp;We&amp;nbsp;were not extremely comfortable - at least some of us - with the idea&amp;nbsp;of going to&amp;nbsp;an area where the winds and the waves are famous for being quite rough. But thanks to our&amp;nbsp;lucky stars, we are welcomed by&amp;nbsp;calm waters, as well as a rather&amp;nbsp;thick fog, which&amp;nbsp;renders the&amp;nbsp;atmosphere surprisingly&amp;nbsp;unearthly. The air is colder and more humid, and the water temperature has dropped by 9°C! We are very&amp;nbsp;curious&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;discover the creatures that thrive&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;the waters here, as we expect them to be very different from&amp;nbsp;the species that&amp;nbsp;we have seen until now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Après près de deux jours de transit, nous avons passé la convergence subtropicale et atteint la station à l'extérieur de la ride ouest-indienne&amp;nbsp;que nous avions planifié d'étudier. Nous sommes à environ 41°C sud, dans&amp;nbsp;ce qui est communément appelé les&amp;nbsp;quarantièmes rugissants...&amp;nbsp;Nous n'étions pas extrêmement à l'aise - du moins certains d'entre nous - à l'idée de rejoindre une zone connue pour ses forts vents et ses fortes vagues. Cela dit, grâce à notre bonne étoile, nous avons été accueilli par des eaux calmes, ainsi qu'un brouillard assez épais qui a rendu l'ambiance étonnamment irréelle. L'air est plus froid et plus humide, et la température de l'eau a perdu 9°C! Nous sommes très curieux de découvrir les créatures qui vivent dans ces eaux, car nous nous attendons à ce qu'elles soient très différentes de ce que nous avons vu jusqu'à présent. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQGy--IhoI/AAAAAAAAAVI/ieKjOqaG3Zw/s1600/4am%20on%20Indian%20Ocean%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQGy--IhoI/AAAAAAAAAVI/ieKjOqaG3Zw/s400/4am%20on%20Indian%20Ocean%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-3819149157215619837?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/3819149157215619837/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/purring-forties-les-quarantiemes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/3819149157215619837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/3819149157215619837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/purring-forties-les-quarantiemes.html' title='The purring forties / Les quarantièmes ronronnant'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxQGy--IhoI/AAAAAAAAAVI/ieKjOqaG3Zw/s72-c/4am%20on%20Indian%20Ocean%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-41.5 49.5</georss:point><georss:box>-73.807609 -10.265625 -9.192391 109.265625</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6978929167238655093</id><published>2009-11-28T09:10:00.082+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T13:12:21.028+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Close like peas in a pod / Inséparables comme les deux doigts de la main</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Philipp&amp;nbsp;relates his experience / &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Philipp relate son expérience:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Pelagic sampling is a strenuous job, sorting catches in the middle of the night while the pressure is on with the next trawl coming up. Obviously small mistakes happen from time to time. This week we set about rectifying a rather large one. 6 feet to be exact. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Le prélèvement d'espèces pélagiques est un travail fatiguant: triage des animaux capturés en pleine nuit et sous la pression&amp;nbsp;de la prochaine capture&amp;nbsp;qui va être amenée à bord. Inévitablement, des erreurs sont commises de temps à autre. Cette semaine, il s'est agi d'en rectifier une d'assez grande taille. Deux mètres, pour être exact. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;As a reminder: about a week ago we caught an enormous Dealfish (Trachipterus sp.) - pictured here with our proud Chief Scientist - and when the follow-up trawl was hauled up and everything from the previous catch had to be put away in buckets and jars, there was no container quite the size of this intriguing creature.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Pour petit rappel: nous avons capturé un trachyptère quelques jours auparavant - en photo ci-dessous avec notre fier scientific en chef. Alors que la prochaine capture allait être hissée à bord et que tout ce qui restait&amp;nbsp;de la prise précédente devait être placé dans des&amp;nbsp;sceaux et des bocaux,&amp;nbsp;nous n'avions pas de&amp;nbsp;récipient à la taille&amp;nbsp;de&amp;nbsp;l'intrigante créature.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxIvrKf-QII/AAAAAAAAAU8/s_a1k32FuuI/s1600/alex_dealfish_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxIvrKf-QII/AAAAAAAAAU8/s_a1k32FuuI/s320/alex_dealfish_s.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Philipp Boersch-Supan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;In the end it was put into the freezer as it was and it was not until sunrise (and two trawls later) that it dawned upon us, that this might not have been the ideal solution. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;En fin de compte, nous l'avons simplement déposée telle quelle dans le congélateur. C'est seulement au petit jour, et après deux filets additionnels,&amp;nbsp;qu'il nous est venu à l'esprit que&amp;nbsp;ça n'avait&amp;nbsp;peut-être pas été la solution idéale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Turns out the large fish and the ice cold metal freezer had an intense bonding session, and our dealfish was frozen solid to the shelf. In principle not too bad a thing to happen as loose things on a ship easily move about in rough weather and are prone to be damaged. However, after a couple of days first signs of freezer burn appeared on the fish and this was definitely not ideal. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il s'est avéré que l'énorme poisson et le congélateur métallique glacial s'étaient intimement&amp;nbsp;rapproché -&amp;nbsp;notre trachyptère s'était solidement gelé à l'étagère. Sur un bateau, ce n'est en principe pas une mauvaise chose, étant donné que les&amp;nbsp;objets lâches ont tendance à bouger et risquent&amp;nbsp;de s'endommager par mauvais temps.&amp;nbsp;Cela dit, après&amp;nbsp;quelques jours, les premiers signes de brûlures sont apparus sur le poisson...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Thus we had to come up with a plan to separate the fish from the freezer without actually thawing the fish because that wouldn't have been any good either. Our rescue plan was very cunning indeed and it involved a short trip around the boat to commandeer some essential tools: A hot-air gun was found in the engineer's workshop, the largest knife taken from the galley (a 16-inch blade, swiss quality), black bin bags and duck tape from the lab and last but not least polar suits from our box with foul weather gear. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il nous a donc fallu monter un plan pour séparer le poisson du&amp;nbsp;congélateur sans pour autant décongeler le poisson - ce qui n'aurait&amp;nbsp;pas été une bonne idée. Notre plan de sauvetage était très rusé, et requit un petit tour du bateau pour réquisitionner quelques outils&amp;nbsp;essentiels: un pistolet à air chaud&amp;nbsp;dégoté dans l'atelier de l'ingénieur,&amp;nbsp;le plus long couteau de la cuisine (une lame de 40cm de qualité suisse), des sacs poubelle, du&amp;nbsp;ruban adhésif&amp;nbsp;et pour finir nos combinaisons polaires et notre équipement pour&amp;nbsp;mauvais temps. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Equipped with all this Kirsty and Philipp entered the icy-realms of the freezer room and started to work. Starting at the tail, the cold metal shelf was carefully warmed until the knife could be slipped underneath the fish and then a sheet of plastic was quickly pulled into the very narrow gap between fish and freezer. Inch by inch the two worked towards the head, until after almost an hour the fish was finally separated from its cold metal bedding. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Equipés de tout cet attirail, Kirsty&amp;nbsp;et Philipp sont entré dans la partie gelée du congélateur et se sont mis au travail. Commençant&amp;nbsp;par&amp;nbsp;la queue, ils ont prudemment réchauffé l'étagère métallique gelée jusqu'à ce qu'il soit possible de glisser le couteau sous le poisson, et ont rapidement&amp;nbsp;inséré une feuille de plastique dans la miniuscule fente créée entre l'animal et le congélateur.&amp;nbsp;Centimètre&amp;nbsp;par centrimètre, ils ont fait leur chemin jusqu'à la tête, jusqu'à ce que, une heure plus tard, le poisson&amp;nbsp;soit complètement séparé de son&amp;nbsp;lit métallique&amp;nbsp;gelé. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Philipp Boersch-Supan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxIvrPb7aHI/AAAAAAAAAVA/ShSIEAQ4UO4/s1600/philipp_and_kirsty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxIvrPb7aHI/AAAAAAAAAVA/ShSIEAQ4UO4/s320/philipp_and_kirsty.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Another day at work for Philipp&amp;nbsp;and Kirsty. Separating a Dealfish from a freezer with a 16-inch kitchen knife and a hot-air gun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Un autre jour de travail pour Philipp et Kirsty - séparant le trachyptère du congélateur à l'aide d'un couteau de cuisine de 40cm et d'un pistolet à air chaud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Now the fish is tightly wrapped in plastic, sealed with duck tape and hopefully in the best shape to make an ichthyologist happy, once we arrive in Port Elizabeth.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Le poisson est maintenant bien emballé&amp;nbsp;dans du plastique, scellé avec du ruban adhésif&amp;nbsp;et dans les meilleures conditions pour faire le bonheur d'un ichtyologue dès notre arrivée à Port Elizabeth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6978929167238655093?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6978929167238655093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/close-like-peas-in-pod-inseparables.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6978929167238655093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6978929167238655093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/close-like-peas-in-pod-inseparables.html' title='Close like peas in a pod / Inséparables comme les deux doigts de la main'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SxIvrKf-QII/AAAAAAAAAU8/s_a1k32FuuI/s72-c/alex_dealfish_s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-41.5 49.5</georss:point><georss:box>-57.8977895 19.6171875 -25.1022105 79.3828125</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-4986463096916660135</id><published>2009-11-27T21:37:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T21:10:56.954+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Humpback whales jumping around the ship / Sauts de baleines à bosse autour du bateau</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-6f49ced0d6883127" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v18.nonxt3.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D6f49ced0d6883127%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331055012%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D31D9F515D4373228954EDA062C21EBCC241DA412.143F65B42DA5AFC265BC883148BE7588F404ED32%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D6f49ced0d6883127%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Dgn70cIepASI4ZAre2ZKNVuJHCWY&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v18.nonxt3.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D6f49ced0d6883127%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331055012%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D31D9F515D4373228954EDA062C21EBCC241DA412.143F65B42DA5AFC265BC883148BE7588F404ED32%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D6f49ced0d6883127%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Dgn70cIepASI4ZAre2ZKNVuJHCWY&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Patrick Pinet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Just admire one of the marvels of the oceans... no comments needed!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Admirez simplement l'une des merveilles des océans... commentaires inutiles!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-4986463096916660135?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/4986463096916660135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/humpback-whales-jumping-around-ship.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4986463096916660135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4986463096916660135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/humpback-whales-jumping-around-ship.html' title='Humpback whales jumping around the ship / Sauts de baleines à bosse autour du bateau'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-37.96 50.42</georss:point><georss:box>-71.6020825 -9.345624999999998 -4.3179175 110.185625</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-273544128082251374</id><published>2009-11-26T18:32:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T21:13:37.057+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Monster of the deep / Monstre des abysses</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We've caught another&amp;nbsp;"black devilfish" - a female of&amp;nbsp;about 10cm,&amp;nbsp;a little more impressive than the previous one!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nous avons pêché un autre "monstre des abysses" - une femelle d'environ 10 centimètres, plus impressionnante que le précédent specimen!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Suprising mating method&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Anglerfish employ an unusual mating method. Because individuals are presumably locally rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is problematic. When scientists first started capturing deep-sea anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were females. These individuals were a few centimeters in size and almost all of them had what appeared to be parasites attached to them. It turned out that these "parasites" were the remains of males.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;At birth, males are already equipped with extremely well developed olfactory organs that detect scents in the water. When it is mature, the male's digestive system degenerates, making him incapable of feeding independently, which necessitates his quickly finding a female anglerfish to prevent his death. The sensitive olfactory organs help the male to detect the pheromones that signal the proximity of a female anglerfish. When he finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male then atrophies into nothing more than a pair of gonads, which releases sperm in response to hormones in the female's bloodstream indicating egg release. This extreme sexual dimorphism ensures that, when the female is ready to spawn, she has a mate immediately available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Source: Wikipedia, "anglerfish"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sw6eXLkP9JI/AAAAAAAAAU4/r-8E8qsi2dk/s1600/Copy%20of%20DSC_0086.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sw6eXLkP9JI/AAAAAAAAAU4/r-8E8qsi2dk/s400/Copy%20of%20DSC_0086.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Surprenante méthode d'accouplement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Les&amp;nbsp;lophiiformes s'accouplent de manière peu commune. Etant donné&amp;nbsp;le peu d'individus présents&amp;nbsp;localement, et la rareté des&amp;nbsp;rencontres, trouver un partenaire n'est pas chose aisée.&amp;nbsp;Quand les premiers&amp;nbsp;lophiiformes ont été capturés, les scientifiques se sont aperçus que tous les specimens étaient des femelles.&amp;nbsp;Ces individus mesuraient quelques centimètres, et la plupart avait ce qui semblait être un parasite accroché à leur corps. En fait, ces "parasites" étaient des restes de mâles.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dès la naissance, les mâles sont pourvus d'organes olfactifs extrêmement bien développés, capables de détecter des odeurs dans l'eau. Lorsque le système digestif du mâle est mature, il dégénère, rendant le mâle incapable de se nourrir de façon autonome. Aussi doit-il rapidement trouver une femelle&amp;nbsp;lophiiforme pour ne pas mourir de faim.&amp;nbsp;Le système olfactif sensible du mâle l'aide à&amp;nbsp;détecter les phéromones signalant la présence d'une femelle à proximité. Lorsqu'il trouve une femelle, il lui mord la peau, et libère des enzymes qui digèrent la peau de sa bouche à lui et de son corps à elle. Le couple&amp;nbsp;fusionne, au&amp;nbsp;niveau des vaisseaux et du sang. Le mâle s'atrophie ensuite pour ne devenir plus qu'une paire de&amp;nbsp;gonades, qui libère&amp;nbsp;du sperme en réponse à des hormones dans le sang de la femelle indiquant qu'elle libère des&amp;nbsp;oeufs.&amp;nbsp;Ce diamorphisme sexuel extrême garantit à la femelle un conjoint disponible immédiatement lorsqu'elle est prête à &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;frayer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-273544128082251374?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/273544128082251374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/monster-of-deep-monstre-des-abysses.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/273544128082251374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/273544128082251374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/monster-of-deep-monstre-des-abysses.html' title='Monster of the deep / Monstre des abysses'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sw6eXLkP9JI/AAAAAAAAAU4/r-8E8qsi2dk/s72-c/Copy%20of%20DSC_0086.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-2391984356188061710</id><published>2009-11-24T22:58:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T21:16:18.365+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sapmer the unseamounty seamount / Sapmer le mont sous-marin peu du genre mont sous-marin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sw0L5hvD64I/AAAAAAAAAU0/HORfjlCiOwQ/s1600/Angler_ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sw0L5hvD64I/AAAAAAAAAU0/HORfjlCiOwQ/s320/Angler_ed.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil and Oddgeir Alvheim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We've spent the last few hours on Sapmer bank before heading for Middle of What seamount, which we'll reach around lunch time tomorrow. Sapmer bank has been a really exciting site. We've collected many animals and a great diversity of species, cephalopods in particular. We've also seen our first anglerfish, the famous "black devilfish" portrayed as the monster of the deep... It's indeed quite scary, with its 2 centimeters length...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Sapmer is very different from Atlantis seamount. While Atlantis looks like the ideal cone-shaped seamount with one summit plateau, Sapmer is a rugged structure with many pinnacles and a complex topography. Its plateau is also much larger than Atlantis's and rock falls can be quite clearly seen along its flanks. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We've gathered some initial evidence that&amp;nbsp;the tides may be washing deep cold currents up the slopes of the seamount and bringing rich and productive water to the top of the seamount, acting like an upwelling. We have also seen very high levels of fluorescence above the seamount coming from rich populations of phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants). This may explain why we have seen great abundances of filter feeding gelatinous animals like salps around Sapmer seamount and why we have seen such a high diversity of other creatures, including predators such as seabirds and whales - one of which was observed today. One thing is certain though, the two seamounts we have seen so far are very different to each other. We look forward to the Middle of What with anticipation of new discoveries!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Nous avons passé nos dernières heures au-dessus du mont sous-marin Sapmer avant de nous diriger vers le mont Middle of What, que nous atteindrons demain midi. Sapmer aura été un site réellement fascinant. Nous avons récolté de nombreux animaux et une grande diversité d'espèces, de céphalopodes en particulier. Nous avons également vu le premier lophiiforme du voyage, le fameux poisson présenté comme le monstre des abysses... Il est effectivement assez effrayant, du haut de ses 2 centimètres...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Le mont sous-marin Sapmer est très différent d'Atlantis. Alors qu'Atlantis représente une sorte d'idéal-type à forme conique avec un plateau au sommet, Sapmer est une structure escarpée, avec de nombreux pitons rocheux et une topographie complexe.&amp;nbsp;Son plateau est également&amp;nbsp;bien plus vaste que celui d'Atlantis, et des restes d'éboulements sont visibles sur ses flancs.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nous avons collecté les premiers indices tendant à démontrer que les marées pourraient faire remonter&amp;nbsp;les courants froids et profonds le long des versants de&amp;nbsp;Sapmer,&amp;nbsp;et ainsi&amp;nbsp;amener des eaux riches et productives sur la surface du mont - agissant&amp;nbsp;comme un upwelling.&amp;nbsp;Nous avons également observé des niveaux très élevés de fluorescence au-dessus du mont provenant des riches populations de phytoplankton (ces plantes marines microscopiques).&amp;nbsp;Cela pourrait expliquer l'abondance d'animaux filtreurs gélatineux tels que les salpidae autour de Sapmer, ainsi que la grande diversité d'autres créatures marines, incluant les&amp;nbsp;prédateurs tels que les oiseaux marins ou les baleines - dont on a vu un individu aujourd'hui.&amp;nbsp; Une chose est sûre, les deux monts que nous avons visité jusqu'à présent sont très différents l'un de l'autre.&amp;nbsp;Nous nous réjouissons des probables découvertes à venir au-dessus de Middle of What.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-2391984356188061710?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/2391984356188061710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/sapmer-unseamounty-seamount-sapmer-le.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2391984356188061710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2391984356188061710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/sapmer-unseamounty-seamount-sapmer-le.html' title='Sapmer the unseamounty seamount / Sapmer le mont sous-marin peu du genre mont sous-marin'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sw0L5hvD64I/AAAAAAAAAU0/HORfjlCiOwQ/s72-c/Angler_ed.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-8943837204147040844</id><published>2009-11-24T15:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T15:38:01.559+01:00</updated><title type='text'>More on BBC Earth News!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvuA7isdWI/AAAAAAAAAUk/y7B5DOSLvXY/s1600/Week%202%20BBC%20Earth%20News.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvuA7isdWI/AAAAAAAAAUk/y7B5DOSLvXY/s200/Week%202%20BBC%20Earth%20News.JPG" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Have a look: more amazing pictures and&amp;nbsp;an updated diary can be found on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8363000/8363108.stm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;BBC Earth News&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt; (in English only).&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-8943837204147040844?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/8943837204147040844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-on-bbc-earth-news.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8943837204147040844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8943837204147040844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-on-bbc-earth-news.html' title='More on BBC Earth News!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvuA7isdWI/AAAAAAAAAUk/y7B5DOSLvXY/s72-c/Week%202%20BBC%20Earth%20News.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-8548673134620555488</id><published>2009-11-23T23:55:00.108+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T13:15:17.645+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Phronima &amp; salpidae</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Some albatrosses have been following the ship for a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;few days now. More than 40 can be seen at a time! Oddgeir managed to take a&amp;nbsp;unique picture of them feeding on a big squid. We have indeed seen many squids on Sapmer, and some&amp;nbsp;impressive ones. They are known to be big predators on seamounts.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Cela fait quelques jours que des albatros suivent le bateau.&amp;nbsp;Il est possible d'en voir jusqu'à 40&amp;nbsp;en même temps! Oddgeir a réussi à prendre une photo unique de ces albatros en train de se nourrir d'un&amp;nbsp;énorme calmar. Nous avons&amp;nbsp;effectivement vu beaucoup de calmars sur Sapmer - et certains de taille impressionnante. Ils sont connus pour être de grands prédateurs des monts sous-marins.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwwPULDkErI/AAAAAAAAAUo/aP3RKaJ4rgs/s1600/Albatrosses%20with%20a%20great%20dinner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwwPULDkErI/AAAAAAAAAUo/aP3RKaJ4rgs/s320/Albatrosses%20with%20a%20great%20dinner.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Oddgeir Alvheim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;A little story about phronima&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Phronima&amp;nbsp;is a little deep-sea transluscent animal that looks like a shrimp. It&amp;nbsp;uses dead salps (barrel-shaped free floating animals) as shelters, a bit like hermit crabs do, except that salps are gelatinous and transparent.&amp;nbsp;The first picture shows&amp;nbsp;a phronima (collected on November 17).&amp;nbsp;The second picture (taken on 23 November), quite uncommon, shows a phronima in its salp housing.&amp;nbsp;Little brown&amp;nbsp;eggs can be observed inside the salp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwwPUW6Z2DI/AAAAAAAAAUw/pcCPXsuohg0/s1600/Phronima%20-%20700m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="149" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwwPUW6Z2DI/AAAAAAAAAUw/pcCPXsuohg0/s200/Phronima%20-%20700m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" width="200" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwwPUCwCsyI/AAAAAAAAAUs/LrdlPObplcw/s1600/DSC_0017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="198" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwwPUCwCsyI/AAAAAAAAAUs/LrdlPObplcw/s200/DSC_0017.jpg" width="200" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Une petite histoire de phronima&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Phronima est un petit animal ressemblant à une crevette que l'on trouve dans les&amp;nbsp;fonds des océans. Il utilise&amp;nbsp;des salpidae morts (des animaux ressemblant à des tonneaux flottant dans l'océan)&amp;nbsp;comme abri pour se protéger - un peu à la façon des bernard l'hermite, à la&amp;nbsp;différence que les salpidae sont transparents et&amp;nbsp;de texture gélatineuse. L'image du haut montre&amp;nbsp;un phronima (pêché le 17 novembre). La seconde image (prise le 23 novembre), plutôt peu commune, montre un&amp;nbsp;phronima dans un salpidae. Des petits&amp;nbsp;oeufs marrons sont visibles à l'intérieur du salpidae.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-8548673134620555488?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/8548673134620555488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/phronima-salpidae.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8548673134620555488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8548673134620555488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/phronima-salpidae.html' title='Phronima &amp; salpidae'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwwPULDkErI/AAAAAAAAAUo/aP3RKaJ4rgs/s72-c/Albatrosses%20with%20a%20great%20dinner.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-36.8 52.12</georss:point><georss:box>-38.9992745 48.3846485 -34.600725499999996 55.8553515</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6697351800923879715</id><published>2009-11-22T18:47:00.040+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T13:35:09.293+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sapmer creatures / les créatures de Sapmer</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;These are some of the beautiful creatures we've caught today. Impressive!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Voici quelques-unes des belles créatures pêchées aujourd'hui. Impressionnant!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvN2mKGl2I/AAAAAAAAAUY/POkDCnc-CrE/s1600/Heteropod%20with%20shell%20-%20350m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Oddgeir%20Alvheim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvN2mKGl2I/AAAAAAAAAUY/POkDCnc-CrE/s320/Heteropod%20with%20shell%20-%20350m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Oddgeir%20Alvheim.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvN2nrecMI/AAAAAAAAAUc/IweWEBH7i6A/s1600/Lobster%20Phyllosoma%20larvae%20-%20750m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Oddgeir%20Alvheim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvN2nrecMI/AAAAAAAAAUc/IweWEBH7i6A/s200/Lobster%20Phyllosoma%20larvae%20-%20750m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Oddgeir%20Alvheim.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvN23U0DUI/AAAAAAAAAUg/y0p75N8C2Vo/s1600/Squid%20-%20Lycoteuthis%20lorigera%202%20-%20350m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvN23U0DUI/AAAAAAAAAUg/y0p75N8C2Vo/s320/Squid%20-%20Lycoteuthis%20lorigera%202%20-%20350m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Sarah%20Gotheil.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Top/&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;haut&lt;/span&gt;: a heteropod with its shell, caught at&amp;nbsp;350m depth.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Un hétéropode avec coquille capturé à 350m de profondeur&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;© Oddgeir Alvheim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Middle/&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;milieu&lt;/span&gt;: a lobster larvae&amp;nbsp;(phyllosoma) caught at&amp;nbsp;750m depth.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Une larve de homard (phyllosoma) capturée à 750m de profondeur&lt;/span&gt;. © Oddgeir Alvheim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Bottom/&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;bas&lt;/span&gt;:&amp;nbsp;a squid (&lt;em&gt;Lycoteuthis lorigera&lt;/em&gt;) caught at&amp;nbsp;350m depth. &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Un calmar&amp;nbsp;(&lt;em&gt;Lycoteuthis lorigera)&lt;/em&gt; capturé à 350m de profondeur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6697351800923879715?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6697351800923879715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/sapmer-creatures-les-creatures-de.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6697351800923879715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6697351800923879715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/sapmer-creatures-les-creatures-de.html' title='Sapmer creatures / les créatures de Sapmer'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwvN2mKGl2I/AAAAAAAAAUY/POkDCnc-CrE/s72-c/Heteropod%20with%20shell%20-%20350m%20-%20%C2%A9%20Oddgeir%20Alvheim.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-36.8 52.12</georss:point><georss:box>-54.279734499999996 22.237187499999997 -19.320265499999998 82.0028125</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-1175502336202003610</id><published>2009-11-21T18:17:00.040+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T12:15:51.500+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Seamount discovery? / Découverte d'un mont sous-marin?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Today is a steaming day again. We've just passed over several seamounts that we believe to be unnamed features.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The image above represents one of them - an acoustic picture of the underwater mountain and the schools of organisms around it, in deeper and shallower waters (what is called the deep/shallow scattering layers). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We've arrived on Sapmer bank at 11.30pm, and will start with some oceanographic measurements before we undertake some fishing activities tomorrow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwqKdF0RUTI/AAAAAAAAATw/8_OWd7zc4yg/s1600/unnamed_seamount_labeled+jpg.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407286534993957170" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwqKdF0RUTI/AAAAAAAAATw/8_OWd7zc4yg/s320/unnamed_seamount_labeled+jpg.JPG" style="display: block; height: 178px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Aujourd'hui est de nouveau un jour de transit. Nous sommes passé au-dessus de plusieurs monts sous-marins, et pensons que&amp;nbsp;ces formations n'ont probablement pas encore été nommées.&amp;nbsp; L'image ci-dessus représente l'une de ces formations - il s'agit d'une image acoustique de la montagne sous-marine entourée de&amp;nbsp;ses bancs d'organismes marins, qui se situent tant dans les eaux plus profondes (deep scattering layer) que dans les eaux plus proches de la surface (shallow scattering layer). Nous sommes arrivé à Sapmer bank ver 23h30, et commençons par entreprendre des mesures océanographiques avant de&amp;nbsp;nous mettre à la pêche demain.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-1175502336202003610?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/1175502336202003610/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/seamount-discovery-decouverte-dun-mont.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1175502336202003610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1175502336202003610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/seamount-discovery-decouverte-dun-mont.html' title='Seamount discovery? / Découverte d&apos;un mont sous-marin?'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwqKdF0RUTI/AAAAAAAAATw/8_OWd7zc4yg/s72-c/unnamed_seamount_labeled+jpg.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-36.8 52.12</georss:point><georss:box>-38.9992745 48.3846485 -34.600725499999996 55.8553515</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-7020035458174555469</id><published>2009-11-20T16:58:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-21T17:05:50.219+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Best science photo of the week / Meilleure photo scientifique de la semaine</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Oddgeir's picture of a hatchetfish has been selected by Fox News as one of the best science photo of the week! Well done, Oddgeir!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Check it out!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/scitech/2009/11/18/eyepoppers-best-science-photos-week?slide=4" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwgPJYbR2AI/AAAAAAAAARM/wtQhl63A51s/s1600/Fox%20news%20logo.jpg" border="0" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:blue;"&gt;La photo du poisson hachette prise par Oddgeir a été sélectionnée par Fox News comme l'une des meilleures photos scientifiques de la semaine! Bravo Oddgeir!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:blue;"&gt;Jetez-y un coup d'oeil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-7020035458174555469?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/7020035458174555469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/best-science-photo-of-week-meilleure.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7020035458174555469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/7020035458174555469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/best-science-photo-of-week-meilleure.html' title='Best science photo of the week / Meilleure photo scientifique de la semaine'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwgPJYbR2AI/AAAAAAAAARM/wtQhl63A51s/s72-c/Fox%20news%20logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-5363657112267296310</id><published>2009-11-19T18:59:00.075+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T15:23:35.775+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Giant fish / Poisson géant</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Fishing for science operations have started on the evening of the 18th for a full 12 hours, during which 9 nets have been deployed. Many animals and a variety of species are caught, including a giant fish:&amp;nbsp;a dealfish measuring, from head to tail, no less than two meters!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We've spent the night until&amp;nbsp;early morning&amp;nbsp;fishing and&amp;nbsp;sorting the&amp;nbsp;creatures caught. The afternoon was thus rather quiet, and the only scientists on duty were Patrick and Etienne, our birdwatchers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Les opérations de pêche pour la science ont commencé dans la soirée du 18 et duré 12 heures, pendant lesquelles nous avons déployé 9 filets. De nombreux animaux et une diversité d'espèces ont été capturées, ainsi qu'un poisson géant: un&amp;nbsp;trachyptère mesurant rien de moins que 2 mètres de long, de la queue à la tête!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nous avons passé la nuit à pêcher et trier les captures jusqu'au petit matin.&amp;nbsp;Aussi, l'après-midi a&amp;nbsp;été plutôt tranquille. Les&amp;nbsp;seuls sur le qui-vive étaient&amp;nbsp;Patrick et Etienne, nos observateurs d'oiseaux.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwgKxZUtLfI/AAAAAAAAARA/NRR58tDPaOA/s1600/DSC_0081%20LR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwgKxZUtLfI/AAAAAAAAARA/NRR58tDPaOA/s400/DSC_0081%20LR.jpg" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Since we have reached the southwest Indian Ocean Ridge, we've been very lucky with seabird observations. In the picture below, each albatross is a different species (wandering, yellow nose &amp;amp; shy albatross)! It is not so easy to recognise the species, especially as birds change plumage&amp;nbsp;as they grow. But under Patrick's eagle eye, no details is missed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Depuis que nous avons atteint la ride ouest-indienne, nous avons été particulièrement chanceux avec les observations d'oiseaux marins. Dans l'image ci-dessous, chaque albatross&amp;nbsp;représente une espèces différente (albatros hurleur,&amp;nbsp;à bec jaune et timide)! Il n'est pas aisé de reconnaître l'espèce, d'autant plus que les oiseaux changent de plumage en grandissant. Mais aucun détail n'échappe à Patrick.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwgLvY9kjBI/AAAAAAAAARE/1p3utnAnVAM/s1600/Copy%20of%20P1050164.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwgLvY9kjBI/AAAAAAAAARE/1p3utnAnVAM/s320/Copy%20of%20P1050164.JPG" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Patrick Pinet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-5363657112267296310?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/5363657112267296310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/giant-fish-poisson-geant.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5363657112267296310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5363657112267296310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/giant-fish-poisson-geant.html' title='Giant fish / Poisson géant'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwgKxZUtLfI/AAAAAAAAARA/NRR58tDPaOA/s72-c/DSC_0081%20LR.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-32.8333333 58.0</georss:point><georss:box>-68.18757980000001 -1.765625 2.5209132000000025 117.765625</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-4733495191892591454</id><published>2009-11-18T20:30:00.033+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T15:20:24.629+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Whales and mangos on Atlantis / Des baleines et des mangues sur Atlantis</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Kirsty spent part of the day preparing her whale bones, accompanied with thick branches of mango tree, to be sunk on Atlantis seamount. As explained in the slideshow on the right, Kirsty is interested in studying the communities of the deep - worms in particular - that develop on the bones and the wood. She hopes that there will be something left in two years time, when the second cruise comes out and recovers to bone for analysis. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Kirsty a passé une bonne partie de la journée à préparer ses os de baleine, accompagnés d'épaisses branches de manguier, pour les faire couler sur le mont sous-marin Atlantis. Comme expliqué dans le diaporama à droite, Kirsty s'intéresse à l'étude des communautés abyssales - dont les vers en particulier - qui se développent sur les os et le bois. Elle espère qu'il restera quelque chose dans deux ans, lorsque la deuxième expédition viendra récupérer les os pour les analyser.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;In the evening, we start deploying fishing gear to investigate marine species over Atlantis seamount. We'll probably be spending the whole night fihsing and sorting out the catches...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dans la soirée, nous commençons à déployer le matériel de pêche pour analyser les espèces marines associées au mont Atlantis. Nous passerons probablement la nuit entière à pêcher et trier les captures...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Swfpz1ObqTI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/-1q16dTCptY/s1600/Kirsty-Henning%20preparing%20whale%20bones.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Swfpz1ObqTI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/-1q16dTCptY/s400/Kirsty-Henning%20preparing%20whale%20bones.JPG" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Patrick Pinet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Kirsty and Henning are preparing the bones and wood to be sunk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Kirsty et Henning préparent les os et le bois à faire couler.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwfqecyENYI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/Ch1jOGZK_IU/s1600/Copy%20of%20DSC_0072.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwfqecyENYI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/Ch1jOGZK_IU/s400/Copy%20of%20DSC_0072.JPG" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;The bones and wood are about to spend two years in the middle of the Indian Ocean.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Les os et le bois sont sur le point de passer deux ans au milieu de l'océan Indien.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-4733495191892591454?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/4733495191892591454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/whales-and-mangos-on-atlantis-des.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4733495191892591454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4733495191892591454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/whales-and-mangos-on-atlantis-des.html' title='Whales and mangos on Atlantis / Des baleines et des mangues sur Atlantis'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Swfpz1ObqTI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/-1q16dTCptY/s72-c/Kirsty-Henning%20preparing%20whale%20bones.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-32.8333333 58.0</georss:point><georss:box>-32.9054523 57.8832705 -32.7612143 58.1167295</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-2811054557525775175</id><published>2009-11-17T18:33:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-05T15:17:57.494+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Atlantis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwRJbIz1zqI/AAAAAAAAANs/F8XFKplCEfg/s1600/DSC_0645+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405526183321652898" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwRJbIz1zqI/AAAAAAAAANs/F8XFKplCEfg/s320/DSC_0645+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 125px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;© &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;We've reached Atlantis seamount around 6am this morning. You can definitely tell that we've travelled southward: the temperature has dropped by a few degrees, the wind is stronger, the sky more cloudy and the waves higher. The visible wildlife is also different... and we have the chance to see &lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;an impressive and majestic seabird: a wandering albatross! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: verdana;"&gt;Nous sommes arrivés au mont sous-marin Atlantis vers 06h00 ce matin. Impossible de ne pas se rendre que nous avons voyagé vers le sud: la température a chuté de plusieurs degrés, le vent est plus fort, le ciel plus nuageux et les vagues plus hautes. La faune visible est également différente... et nous avons la chance de voir un impressionnant et majestueux oiseau marin: un albatros hurleur!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406217950440459346" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Swa-lSJYDFI/AAAAAAAAAQw/hsClGA_n0yc/s320/Copy+of+Atlantis3Dlabeled.png" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 237px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Philipp Boersch-Supan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;This imposing underwater feature is just beneath the ship, at 700 meters from the surface. It is about 15km long!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Cette imposante formation sous-marine est juste sous nos pieds, à 700 mètres de la surface. Elle fait env. 15km de long!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-2811054557525775175?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/2811054557525775175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/atlantis.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2811054557525775175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2811054557525775175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/atlantis.html' title='Atlantis'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwRJbIz1zqI/AAAAAAAAANs/F8XFKplCEfg/s72-c/DSC_0645+LR.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Unknown location</georss:featurename><georss:point>-32.8333333 58.0</georss:point><georss:box>-68.18757980000001 -1.765625 2.5209132000000025 117.765625</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-1702657514490580062</id><published>2009-11-17T18:06:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T18:43:54.787+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Check out BBC Earth News! / Jetez un oeil à BBC Earth News!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;It is an immense pleasure to let you know that we have the privilege to be featured on BBC Earth News! The life and work onboard the Nansen will be told in the form of a diary, updated on a weekly basis. You will also see exclusive pictures in the picture gallery. Just a click away!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8363000/8363108.stm"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405125608155915986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 104px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwLdGmCAJtI/AAAAAAAAANc/JpF8d6zAGaM/s200/BBC+Earth+News+logo.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;J'ai l'immense plaisir de vous annoncer que nous avons le privilège de figurer sur le site de BBC Earth News! Le travail et la vie à bord du Nansen sera relatée sous forme de journal de bord hebdomadaire. Vous y verrez également des photos exclusives. A seulement un click d'ici! (en anglais uniquement)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-1702657514490580062?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/1702657514490580062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/check-out-bbc-earth-news-jetez-un-oeil.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1702657514490580062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1702657514490580062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/check-out-bbc-earth-news-jetez-un-oeil.html' title='Check out BBC Earth News! / Jetez un oeil à BBC Earth News!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwLdGmCAJtI/AAAAAAAAANc/JpF8d6zAGaM/s72-c/BBC+Earth+News+logo.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6852684703264159544</id><published>2009-11-16T14:54:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T15:53:02.339+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Seamounts, whales and worms / Monts sous-marins, baleines et vers</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Today is a steaming day. We're all excited, as we know that we'll be above the first seamount of the expedition - named Atlantis - as we wake up tomorrow. We will be spending three full days measuring and sampling on and around the feature... while Kirsty will be sinking some whale bones!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;The team has had a chance to be given a presentation by Kirsty on whale falls and the fascinating communities that develop and thrive on the carcasses. If you want to know more about that, too, and see the weird colourful bone-eating worms, have a look at the slideshow on the right!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405515634613467490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 123px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwQ_1Hz0uWI/AAAAAAAAANk/akloko1WnkQ/s200/Worm+clip+arft.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;Aujourd'hui est un jour de transit. Nous sommes tous excités à l'idée de savoir que nous allons nous réveiller demain matin au-dessus du premier mont sous-marin de l'expédition, nommé Atlantis. Nous passerons trois jours à mesurer et à investiguer cette formation et ses alentours... pendant que Kirsty s'occupera de faire couler des os de baleines!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#3366ff;"&gt;L'équipe a eu la chance d'assister à une présentation de Kirsty sur les communautés fascinantes qui se développent sur les carcasses de baleines. Si vous voulez en savoir plus et êtes curieux de découvrir d'étranges vers colorés mangeurs d'os, cliquez à droite sur le diaporama!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6852684703264159544?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6852684703264159544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/seamounts-whales-and-worms-monts-sous.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6852684703264159544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6852684703264159544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/seamounts-whales-and-worms-monts-sous.html' title='Seamounts, whales and worms / Monts sous-marins, baleines et vers'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SwQ_1Hz0uWI/AAAAAAAAANk/akloko1WnkQ/s72-c/Worm+clip+arft.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6791105582744154151</id><published>2009-11-15T02:26:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T13:24:32.466+01:00</updated><title type='text'>First catch / Première capture</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_Q9XNQCaI/AAAAAAAAAMc/LGvUoKgo29M/s1600-h/DSC_0388+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404267830488074658" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_Q9XNQCaI/AAAAAAAAAMc/LGvUoKgo29M/s320/DSC_0388+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 213px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Just after midnight, the net with our first catch of marine species from the high seas of the Indian Ocean is hoisted on the back deck of the ship. It contains about 30 species, including three species of squids and two species of fish - a hatchet fish (top image) and a light fish (bottom image).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Peu après minuit, le filet contenant notre première capture d'espèces marines des eaux internationales de l'océan Indien est hissé sur le pont arrière du bateau. Une trentaine d'espèces sont récoltées, dont trois espèces de calmars et deux espèces de poissons - un poisson hachette (image du haut) et un poisson luminescent (image du bas).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_V3yci9eI/AAAAAAAAAMs/_WwELwFSqow/s1600-h/DSC_0426+-+squid+2+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404273232278910434" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_V3yci9eI/AAAAAAAAAMs/_WwELwFSqow/s200/DSC_0426+-+squid+2+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 130px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_WB-uL8yI/AAAAAAAAAM0/ClOlmFb7vjw/s1600-h/DSC_0433+-+squid+3+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404273407372817186" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_WB-uL8yI/AAAAAAAAAM0/ClOlmFb7vjw/s200/DSC_0433+-+squid+3+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 142px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404272911246650130" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_VlGgfaxI/AAAAAAAAAMk/B-OMDkHjo_E/s200/DSC_0397+-+squid+1+-+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 169px;" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_WXdn1s-I/AAAAAAAAAM8/1EelibpBF50/s1600-h/DSC_0406+-+hatchet+fish+-+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404273776444945378" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_WXdn1s-I/AAAAAAAAAM8/1EelibpBF50/s200/DSC_0406+-+hatchet+fish+-+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 127px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404274043098057970" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_Wm--5TPI/AAAAAAAAANE/kTLLU-E-YL8/s200/DSC_0416+-+light+fish+-+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 166px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6791105582744154151?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6791105582744154151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/first-catch-premiere-capture.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6791105582744154151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6791105582744154151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/first-catch-premiere-capture.html' title='First catch / Première capture'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv_Q9XNQCaI/AAAAAAAAAMc/LGvUoKgo29M/s72-c/DSC_0388+LR.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-5079260530269488537</id><published>2009-11-14T18:45:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T13:25:37.672+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Serious stuff begins / Les choses sérieuses commencent</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;In the middle of nowhere - an area where only one seabird has been observed today...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Au milieu de nulle part - dans une région où seul un oiseau marin a été observé aujourd'hui...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404025202365926402" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv70SjBHjAI/AAAAAAAAALM/jPslGvcZgYE/s320/Copy+of+DSC_0317.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 166px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;... the serious work begins. From the deployment of phytoplankton nets...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;... le travail sérieux commence. Du déploiement des filets à phytoplankton...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404025507579359698" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv70kUBq8dI/AAAAAAAAALU/rFFv3UJ-zSU/s320/Copy+of+DSC_0324.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;... to the deployment of the enormous trawl nets for fishes... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;...au déploiement des énormes chaluts à poissons...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404026413127019026" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv71ZBdDqhI/AAAAAAAAALk/ylnyuKjf61U/s320/Copy+of+DSC_0349.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;... everything is ready for the catch, the preservation, the identification and the analysis of the marine species of the southern Indian Ocean!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;...tout est prêt pour la capture, la préservation, l'identification et l'analyse des espèces marines du sud de l'océan indien!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;© Sarah Gotheil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-5079260530269488537?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/5079260530269488537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/real-stuff-begins-les-choses-serieuses.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5079260530269488537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5079260530269488537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/real-stuff-begins-les-choses-serieuses.html' title='Serious stuff begins / Les choses sérieuses commencent'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv70SjBHjAI/AAAAAAAAALM/jPslGvcZgYE/s72-c/Copy+of+DSC_0317.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-863810265168953846</id><published>2009-11-13T17:15:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-26T19:40:59.035+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Like a Friday 13 / Comme un vendredi 13</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Friday 13 November unfortunately kept true to its reputation - a day of bad luck. Just before 6pm, after a whole day of steaming, the team starts to get quite excited: the first deployment of scientific equipment is about to take place. The ADCP and the CTD, that measure ocean currents, temperature and depth, are sent down to 1500m depth. When retrieving the devices an hour later, we have a bad surprise. We discover that the box containing the batteries for the ADCP collapsed under the pressure. We are now investigating to try to understand what happened. Luckily enough, we will be able to continue the work as we have a spare piece of equipment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Patrick and Etienne, our seabird guys, are on watch since 6am this morning. In the afternoon, they see two flocks of about 500 sooty terns each - the most common species of seabirds in the western Indian Ocean.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv2kFPi9dEI/AAAAAAAAAK8/aFDegIhq314/s1600-h/DSC_0265+LR.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403655537893930050" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv2kFPi9dEI/AAAAAAAAAK8/aFDegIhq314/s400/DSC_0265+LR.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Le vendredi 13 novembre est malheureusement resté fidèle à sa réputation - un jour de malchance. Peu avant 18h00, après une journée entière de navigation, on sent de l'excitation dans l'air: l'équipe est sur le point de déployer l'équipement scientifique pour la première fois depuis le départ. Le courantomètre (ADCP) et la sonde CTD, qui mesurent les courants océaniques, la température et la profondeur, sont envoyés à 1500m de profondeur. Lorsque les appareils sont récupérés une heure plus tard, nous avons une mauvaise surprise. Nous découvrons que la boîte contenant les batteries n'a pas supporté la pression et a implosé. Nous menons l'enquête pour comprendre ce qui a pu se passer. Heureusement, nous pourrons continuer le travail, car nous avons un appareil de rechange.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Patrick et Etienne, nos spécialistes oiseaux marins, sont le qui-vive depuis 6h00 ce matin. Dans l'après-midi, ils ont la chance de voir deux groupes de 500 sternes fuligineuses - l'espèce la plus répandue dans le sud-ouest de l'océan indien.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-863810265168953846?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/863810265168953846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/friday-13-november-unfortunately-kept.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/863810265168953846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/863810265168953846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/friday-13-november-unfortunately-kept.html' title='Like a Friday 13 / Comme un vendredi 13'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv2kFPi9dEI/AAAAAAAAAK8/aFDegIhq314/s72-c/DSC_0265+LR.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Afrique</georss:featurename><georss:point>-22.61401087437029 55.3271484375</georss:point><georss:box>-23.88163237437029 53.4594724375 -21.34638937437029 57.1948244375</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-8971500203767999136</id><published>2009-11-12T09:18:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T21:50:49.131+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tension mounting / La tension monte</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Tension's in the air and some people look quite nervous - our chief scientist, Alex Rogers, in particular. The ethanol, which was supposed to fly in from Mauritius at noon, is not on the expected flight. For a few hours, we do not know whether we will be able to leave today or not. The scientific plans are kept open to be adapted to further possible reduction of our time at sea. A precious day of beautiful and calm weather has already been lost. Finally, at 3.30pm, we get the good news: the ethanol has landed, and we will be able to depart at 6.30pm. It seems that if we are extremely lucky with the weather, this lost time will not affect the initial scientific plans. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just before 7pm, as we are leaving the port, we see the horizon opening up in front of us. This moment is very particular and moving. We really all are on the same boat, now, and realise that we won't see land or civilisation before quite some time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv0cMAYH_2I/AAAAAAAAAK0/ljZIqSktN24/s1600-h/DSC_0242+-+retravaill%C3%A9e+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403506120499658594" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv0cMAYH_2I/AAAAAAAAAK0/ljZIqSktN24/s400/DSC_0242+-+retravaill%C3%A9e+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;L'atmosphère est tendue, et quelques personnes ont l'air nerveux. Notre scientifique en chef, Alex Rogers, en particulier. L'éthanol, qui était supposé arriver de l'île Maurice à midi, n'est pas à bord du vol prévu. L'espace de &lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;quelques heures, nous ne savons pas si nous pourrons partir aujourd'hui ou non. Le programme scientifique est maintenu ouvert, afin de pouvoir l'ajuster à une possible diminution supplémentaire de notre temps en mer.&lt;/span&gt; Nous avons déjà perdu un jour précieux de temps beau et calme. Enfin, à 15h30, nous apprenons la bonne nouvelle: l'éthanol a atterri, et nous pourrons partir vers 18h30. Si nous avons beaucoup de chance avec le temps ces prochaines semaines, ce temps perdu ne devrait pas avoir d'impact sur le programme scientifique initial. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Peu avant 19h00, alors que nous sommes en train de quitter le port, nous voyons l'horizon s'ouvrir devant nous. C'est un moment très particulier et émouvant, pendant lequel nous réalisons également que nous ne verrons pas de terre ou de civilisation avant un bon bout de temps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-8971500203767999136?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/8971500203767999136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/tension-mounting-la-tension-monte.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8971500203767999136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/8971500203767999136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/tension-mounting-la-tension-monte.html' title='Tension mounting / La tension monte'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv0cMAYH_2I/AAAAAAAAAK0/ljZIqSktN24/s72-c/DSC_0242+-+retravaill%C3%A9e+LR.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Le Port, Réunion</georss:featurename><georss:point>-20.930849 55.30114</georss:point><georss:box>-20.9709325 55.242774999999995 -20.890765499999997 55.359505</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-1224986931935752212</id><published>2009-11-11T17:45:00.012+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T21:49:58.586+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A quiet day / Une journée calme</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;The day starts off with a security training for the whole scientific team. Philipp happily volunteers to try on the survival kit. Now we just all hope that will not have to resort to using it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;L'équipe scientifique débute sa journée par une formation sur la sécurité à bord. Philipp se porte joyeusement volontaire pour la démonstration de l'utilisation de la combinaison de survie. Maintenant, nous espérons seulement ne pas avoir à nous en servir! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403269683011517410" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxFJiGJ--I/AAAAAAAAAKc/AAruN9xMN9s/s320/Copy+of+DSC_0102.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 213px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;If everything goes well, today is our last chance to set foot on land before a few weeks. Kirsty, Philipp and Tom also take the opportunity to visit from within what will be our working field for the next 40 days, and discover the beauties of Reunion's underwater world. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Si tout se passe comme prévu, aujourd'hui est notre dernière chance de mettre pied à terre avant plusieurs semaines. Kirsty, Philipp et Tom saisissent cette opportunité pour visiter de l'intérieur ce qui sera notre terrain de travail pour les 40 prochains jours, et découvrir les beautés qu'offre le monde sous-marin réunionnais.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxCaI6MwqI/AAAAAAAAAKM/FymuuiAX5O8/s1600-h/IMG_0826_crop+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403266669773374114" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxCaI6MwqI/AAAAAAAAAKM/FymuuiAX5O8/s320/IMG_0826_crop+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 160px; width: 192px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxCaT4I-YI/AAAAAAAAAKU/_JIj59QyLdI/s1600-h/IMG_0847_crop+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403266672717527426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxCaT4I-YI/AAAAAAAAAKU/_JIj59QyLdI/s320/IMG_0847_crop+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 159px; width: 218px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxCZwa8CrI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/m6Z6zyig-5U/s1600-h/IMG_0788_crop+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403266663199804082" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxCZwa8CrI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/m6Z6zyig-5U/s320/IMG_0788_crop+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 159px; width: 202px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxCaH0jM_I/AAAAAAAAAKE/Qq30x7GgAn8/s1600-h/IMG_0798_crop+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403266669481243634" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxCaH0jM_I/AAAAAAAAAKE/Qq30x7GgAn8/s320/IMG_0798_crop+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 158px; width: 197px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 78%;"&gt;© Tom Letessier&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-1224986931935752212?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/1224986931935752212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/quiet-day-une-journee-calme.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1224986931935752212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1224986931935752212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/quiet-day-une-journee-calme.html' title='A quiet day / Une journée calme'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvxFJiGJ--I/AAAAAAAAAKc/AAruN9xMN9s/s72-c/Copy+of+DSC_0102.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Le Port, Réunion</georss:featurename><georss:point>-20.930849 55.30114</georss:point><georss:box>-20.9709325 55.242774999999995 -20.890765499999997 55.359505</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-566304780252780026</id><published>2009-11-10T16:06:00.020+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T16:39:56.389+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The vessel's popular! / Le bateau a la cote!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;After a slightly chaotic departure (caused by late bus arrival and heavy traffic jam in St-Denis due to road closures), the team finally gets to Le Port and discovers its new home for the next fourty days: the &lt;em&gt;Dr Fridtjof Nansen.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Although it is quite an exciting moment, we do not have much time to get familiar with the vessel and unpack before some four classes from St-Denis (about 95 children) that we invited show up for a visit of the ship. Two groups of ten kids at a time are taken round the boat and are shown everything from the laboratories, the acoustic room, the research equipment, the kitchen, the dining room, the wheelhouse, to the TV/library area and the gym. T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;hey seem to enjoy this visit a lot, and the testing of the shiphorn in particular!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;A few journalists from the press and the local television are also present, and get a chance to visit the vessel, interview the scientists and some of the school kids. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;Today is also the day when the Norwegian vessel crew that will accompany us on our voyage arrives, replacing the team that has just finished its 40-days on the vessel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;While the weather is amazing, there is one cloud on the horizon: we have just been informed that we won't be able to sail off tomorrow as planned. We are expecting 1000 litres of ethanol from South Africa, that can however not be transported to the ship before November 12. The alcohol, used for preservation of species collected, is considered a hasardous substance and is not allowed on the roads during a bank holiday. This is how we learned that November 11 was a bank holiday on Reunion island! Tough luck. At least, the departure on the 12th is confirmed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Svq7UfNnP0I/AAAAAAAAAHc/TfW8nfJEZrM/s1600-h/DSC_0019+LR+JPG+reworked.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402836663634706242" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Svq7UfNnP0I/AAAAAAAAAHc/TfW8nfJEZrM/s320/DSC_0019+LR+JPG+reworked.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 213px; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Après un départ un peu chaotique (causé par l'arrivée tardive du bus et des bouchons à St-Denis liés à des fermetures de routes), l'équipe arrive finalement au Port et découvre ce qui sera son "chez soi" pour les quarante prochains jours: le &lt;em&gt;Dr Fridtjof Nansen&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Bien que le moment soit assez excitant, nous n'avons que peu de temps pour nous familiariser avec le bateau et défaire nos valises, car bientôt arrivent les quatre classes que nous attendions (environ 95 écoliers) de St-Denis pour une visite du bateau. Les scientifiques font faire le tour du navire aux enfants, divisés en groupe de dix. Ils visitent tous les recoins du bateau, de la cale à la cabine de pilotage, en passant par les labortoires, la chambre acoustique, la cuisine, la salle à manger, le salon avec sa télévision et sa librairie et la salle de gym. Les manipulations scientifiques et l'équipement qui sera déployé pour la recherche leur sont également présentés. Ils semblent beaucoup apprécier la visite, et en particulier l'activation du klaxon du bateau! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Quelques journalistes de la presse et de la télévision sont également présents sur les lieux, pour un visite du bateau et l'interview de scientifiques et d'élèves des classes réunionnaises. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Aujourd'hui arrive également l'équipage norvégien qui opère le bateau, et qui nous accompagnera dans notre périple. Elle remplace l'équipe sortante, qui vient de passer 40 jours en mer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;Une seule ombre au tableau: nous venons d'apprendre que le bateau ne pourra pas mettre les voiles demain, comme prévu. Alors que nous attendons 1000 litres d'éthanol en provenance d'Afrique du sud, nous apprenons que la livraison ne pourra être acheminée vers le port avant le 12 novembre. L'alcool, utilisé pour la préservation des espèces récoltées, est considéré comme une substance dangereuse, interdite sur les routes les jours fériés. C'est ainsi que nous apprenons que le 11 novembre est un jour férié à la Réunion! Pas de chance! Au moins, le départ pour le 12 est confirmé.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-566304780252780026?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/566304780252780026/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/vessels-popular-le-bateau-la-cote.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/566304780252780026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/566304780252780026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/vessels-popular-le-bateau-la-cote.html' title='The vessel&apos;s popular! / Le bateau a la cote!'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Svq7UfNnP0I/AAAAAAAAAHc/TfW8nfJEZrM/s72-c/DSC_0019+LR+JPG+reworked.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Saint Denis, Réunion</georss:featurename><georss:point>-20.930849 55.30114</georss:point><georss:box>-21.091182999999997 55.067680499999994 -20.770515 55.5345995</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-4340800982595242698</id><published>2009-11-09T16:01:00.019+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T17:02:46.028+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Plan finalisation / Finalisation du programme</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv6wm9MKe1I/AAAAAAAAALE/bzAEY4JX9eM/s1600-h/Seamounts+Stations+map+-+09.11.09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403950786198272850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 409px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 226px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv6wm9MKe1I/AAAAAAAAALE/bzAEY4JX9eM/s400/Seamounts+Stations+map+-+09.11.09.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The scientific team is now complete and can finalise the cruise plans. It represents a group of 15 people of 10 different nationalities and several areas of expertise, ranging from oceanography to seabirds, and from fish to phytoplankton to deep-water corals. It is the first time that we all have a chance to meet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;The itinerary is being revisited, and the precise stations chosen. 12 spots will be surveyed, including 6 seamounts and an area beyond the subtropical front, in the subantarctic. Most stations will include oceanographic work (currents, temperature, depth, salinity and oxygen), biodiversity studies of species ranging from microscopic phytoplankton to the bigger fishes and acoustic surveys to determine biomass. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;As this area has barely been surveyed for biodiversity, we expect to find quite a few species new to science.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;The schedule is full, and operations onboard take place 24 hours per day. It looks like we won't have time to get bored! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;L'équipe scientifique est maintenant au complet et peut finaliser le programme de l'expédition. Elle représente un groupe de 15 personnes de 10 nationalités différentes et de champs de compétences variés, allant de l'océanographie aux oiseaux marins, et des poissons au phytoplankton et aux coraux d'eau profonde. C'est le première fois que l'équipe se rencontre dans son entier. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#3333ff;"&gt;L'itinéraire est rediscuté, et les stations de recherches précises sont identifiées. 12 aires seront étudiées, incluant 6 monts sous-marins et une zone au-delà du front sub-tropical, dans la zone sub-antarctique. Des études océanographiques (courants, température, profondeur, salinité et oxygène), des analyses de la diversité des espèces marines allant du phytoplankton microscopique aux grands poissons, ainsi que des études acoustiques pour déterminer la biomasse seront entreprises à la majorité des stations. Etant donné que cette région a très peu été étudiée pour sa biodiversité, nous nous attendons à découvrir un certain nombre d'espèces nouvelles pour la science.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Le programme est complet, et les opérations à bord se font 24/24. Nous n'aurons certainement pas le temps de nous ennuyer!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-4340800982595242698?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/4340800982595242698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/plan-finalisation-finalisation-du.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4340800982595242698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/4340800982595242698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/plan-finalisation-finalisation-du.html' title='Plan finalisation / Finalisation du programme'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Sv6wm9MKe1I/AAAAAAAAALE/bzAEY4JX9eM/s72-c/Seamounts+Stations+map+-+09.11.09.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Saint-Denis, Réunion</georss:featurename><georss:point>-20.9114662 55.4526995</georss:point><georss:box>-20.9515547 55.3943345 -20.8713777 55.5110645</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-6283464357023898662</id><published>2009-11-08T14:54:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T21:46:42.460+01:00</updated><title type='text'>100% planning / 100% planification</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Svl-STw5sJI/AAAAAAAAAHU/kvYL7Ms6x7U/s1600-h/DSC_0006+LR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402488081015746706" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Svl-STw5sJI/AAAAAAAAAHU/kvYL7Ms6x7U/s320/DSC_0006+LR.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;The first half of the scientific team has made its way to Reunion island. It is busy discussing cruise plan preparation, under Alex Rogers's chairmanship, our chief scientist. The itinerary is being revisited and the detailed work at each station refined. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Une partie de l'équipe scientifique est arrivée à la Réunion. Sous la présidence d'Alex Rogers, notre scientifique en chef, l'équipe révise l'itinéraire de l'expédition et définit le travail détaillé qui sera entrepris à chaque station.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-6283464357023898662?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/6283464357023898662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/100-planning-100-planification.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6283464357023898662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/6283464357023898662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/100-planning-100-planification.html' title='100% planning / 100% planification'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/Svl-STw5sJI/AAAAAAAAAHU/kvYL7Ms6x7U/s72-c/DSC_0006+LR.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Saint-Denis, Réunion</georss:featurename><georss:point>-20.917831371761547 55.43975830078125</georss:point><georss:box>-20.957919871761547 55.38139330078125 -20.877742871761548 55.49812330078125</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-1347037031135044692</id><published>2009-10-02T10:33:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T13:28:21.056+01:00</updated><title type='text'>IUCN welcomes ECOMAR as a new partner to the Seamounts Project / L'UICN accueille ECOMAR comme nouveau partenaire au projet</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvAho0SugaI/AAAAAAAAAG8/VUJKvTxkr3k/s1600-h/White-tailed+Tropicbird+LR+-+%C2%A9+Matthieu+Le+Corre.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399852938332897698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvAho0SugaI/AAAAAAAAAG8/VUJKvTxkr3k/s320/White-tailed+Tropicbird+LR+-+%C2%A9+Matthieu+Le+Corre.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;The Marine Ecology Laboratory of the University of Reunion (ECOMAR) has formally become a partner of the “UNDP/GEF Seamounts Project” led by IUCN, providing additional expertise and knowledge on seabirds ecology in the open ocean and areas of potential interest for future marine protected areas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/marine/marine_our_work/marine_governance/seamounts/?3979/IUCN-welcomes-ECOMAR-as-a-new-partner-to-the-Seamounts-Project"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Full article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Le Laboratoire d’Écologie Marine de l’Université de la Réunion (ECOMAR) est devenu un partenaire officiel du Projet FEM/PNUD Monts sous-marins de l’océan Indien, mené par l’UICN. Ce partenariat complète l’équipe scientifique avec l’apport d’expertise et de connaissances sur l’écologie des oiseaux marins, et contribuera à la détermination des points chauds de la biodiversité en milieu océanique, susceptibles d’être protégés dans le futur. &lt;a href="http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/marine/marine_our_work/marine_governance/seamounts/?3979/2/LUICN-accueille-ECOMAR-comme-nouveau-partenaire-au--Projet-monts-sous-marins-"&gt;Article entier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-1347037031135044692?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/1347037031135044692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/iucn-welcomes-ecomar-as-new-partner-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1347037031135044692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/1347037031135044692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/iucn-welcomes-ecomar-as-new-partner-to.html' title='IUCN welcomes ECOMAR as a new partner to the Seamounts Project / L&apos;UICN accueille ECOMAR comme nouveau partenaire au projet'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvAho0SugaI/AAAAAAAAAG8/VUJKvTxkr3k/s72-c/White-tailed+Tropicbird+LR+-+%C2%A9+Matthieu+Le+Corre.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-2254315725054129746</id><published>2009-09-04T15:24:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-03T13:02:13.345+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WCPA MR - East Africa'/><title type='text'>2009 Seamounts cruise / Expédition monts sous-marins</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SsDFobrMkyI/AAAAAAAAAGE/ImDLvb8lFds/s1600-h/IUCN_low_res_colour.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SqEVqz17yPI/AAAAAAAAAFU/-T2peMaSzHs/s1600-h/DSCF5521.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377603255272196338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SqEVqz17yPI/AAAAAAAAAFU/-T2peMaSzHs/s320/DSCF5521.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SqEVqz17yPI/AAAAAAAAAFU/-T2peMaSzHs/s1600-h/DSCF5521.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;© Tom Bornman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Onboard the Norwegian research vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen, a team of the world's leading experts, paired with scientists from the region, will investigate seamounts in the international waters of the Indian Ocean. Starting its voyage on November 11, 2009 at Reunion Island, the vessel will sail off towards the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;southwest Indian Ocean Ridge to study five seamounts located between 32°00' S and 41°00' S, and end its journey forty days later, in Port Elizabeth, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;South Africa. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;A bord du navire de recherche norvégien Dr Fridtjof Nansen, une équipe d'experts de renommée internationale sera accompagnée de scientifiques de la région pour étudier les monts sous-marins des eaux internationales de l'océan Indien. Débutant son voyage le 11 novembre 2009 à la Réunion, le bateau mettra les voiles en direction de la ride sud-ouest indienne pour étudier cinq monts sous-marins situés entre les latitudes 32°00' S et 41°00'S, pour finir son voyage quarante jours plus tard à Port Elizabeth en Afrique du sud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-2254315725054129746?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/2254315725054129746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/09/2009-seamounts-cruise.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2254315725054129746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/2254315725054129746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/09/2009-seamounts-cruise.html' title='2009 Seamounts cruise / Expédition monts sous-marins'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SqEVqz17yPI/AAAAAAAAAFU/-T2peMaSzHs/s72-c/DSCF5521.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5614482425262271090.post-5754568713379563052</id><published>2009-09-03T14:16:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T10:19:41.025+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Itinerary / Itinéraire</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvGAMKlQOfI/AAAAAAAAAHM/dTQDRdyfUh0/s1600-h/Map+of+project+area+-+TB+-+new+itinerary.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400238374681328114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 306px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvGAMKlQOfI/AAAAAAAAAHM/dTQDRdyfUh0/s400/Map+of+project+area+-+TB+-+new+itinerary.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvF_wPdFIkI/AAAAAAAAAHE/9Et7mNfcffk/s1600-h/Map+of+project+area+-+TB+-+new+itinerary.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;Map: Tom Bornman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5614482425262271090-5754568713379563052?l=seamounts2009.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/feeds/5754568713379563052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/09/itinerary-itineraire.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5754568713379563052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5614482425262271090/posts/default/5754568713379563052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://seamounts2009.blogspot.com/2009/09/itinerary-itineraire.html' title='Itinerary / Itinéraire'/><author><name>Seamount 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14793221602318561232</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E-6yZzA42Rc/SvGAMKlQOfI/AAAAAAAAAHM/dTQDRdyfUh0/s72-c/Map+of+project+area+-+TB+-+new+itinerary.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
