Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Fish are food not friends...

Jeff and I have been slaving I think quite well we're making great headway and already have thousands of samples to sort through when we get back to see what all this filtering we're doing means. Every now and then between, eating, sleeping, and trying to stand up without falling over we do find an hour here and there to enjoy some other things going on on the boat.
So catching back up on happenings on the New Horizon yesterday we had a mild fish bonanza. Jake had his lines in along with Buddy (crew members) and I noticed on had a fish. I buzzed the bridge to slow down the ship from the aft deck phone and pulled it in with some work gloves that happened to be Jeff's. Man was it strong! After wrestling this guy to the deck he proceeded to barf squid up on me and bleed all over me till I got control of him. He was hooked through one eye so we couldn't really throw him back. So we got under way again and then bam! We caught 8 more of these guys so eventually after a few stops we had to mandate no more fishing since it was actually disruptive to our progress between stations. The cook had a grill out on deck and we had grilled jack for dinner.


The Jack that started it all.
A short bloody battle of man vs. fish ensued.
With man the victor by a slim margin fishy got to sleep on ice.
Jacks have a really neat blue stripe and sharp everything protruding from their bodies.
In the evening we were also treated to our first view of land in about 9 days with this gem of an island.


Gifts! A tradition of the EZ lab is when people go on research trips they get little parting gifts to open from the lab. Thus far Jeff and I have been randomly selecting gifts and some of them are quite awesome. In particular Jeff opening this "Laser Top" which provides plenty of on deck entertainment during night casts. We also have opened up bubbles, finger puppet sea creatures, and monster squirt guns. We're waiting a little longer before we open some more.

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