Darwin 200 UK voyage day 25: gannets rule!
Today was special, even more so than other days during the Darwin 200 voyage on the Tall Ship Pelican of London. We visited Bass Rock! With 75 pairs of breeding gannets, plus young birds and […]
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Darwin 200 day 22: science conference aboard Pelican!
This morning the science conference brings together all the projects we’ve been running aboard the Pelican of London. Find out more about our wind energy activities here https://darwin200.com/understanding-sustainable-energy/ Find out more about plankton on our […]
Darwin 200 under sail due South
The exhaust repair successfully completed, we’ve set sail as soon as leaving the dock and are cruising comfortably South at 5 – 6 knots, now powered by the wind. Sustainability in practice! We’ll pick up […]
Darwin 200 day 15: off to Skye or not?
It’s a sunny morning on Lewis and we are preparing for departure. That means cleaning of heads and showers, happy hour, including brassoing (is that a word?) the brass. Then Patrick Harper captured our ‘pet […]
Darwin 200 day 14: education and hard tack!
Some are lazily digesting their food … … while we going live with ‘education by the seats of our pants’ to hundreds of schools around the world with the stories of sailing and science aboard […]
Darwin 200 day 13: Stories emerge
Our scientific observations and experiments are contributing to a puzzle from which stories emerge… Soon, we will be able to provide a snapshot of water quality data at locations around Britain. We are compiling a […]
Darwin 200 day 11: fair winds
My day started at 06:00 with a profile of the water column to check salinity, oxygen saturation, temperature and pH. After breakfast we commenced to be busy with Happy Hour, which means daily cleaning chores […]
Darwin 200 day 11: diving off Lochaline
Rohan, Kerry and Stewart brought up some starfish from a 30 m dive for us to look at. Mathasterias is heavily armoured and it apparently, it is successful as a strategy, as not many things […]
Darwin 200 day 9: Back to Scotland!
The morning started with a bit of excitement when Kerry spotted a basking shark before breakfast. We started our daily cetacean survey after scrubbing the decks and cleaning below. Highlights included common dolphins leaping clean […]
Darwin 200 day 8 Rathlin island
Busy day ashore and below water. Rohan and Kerry brought specimen from the kelp forest in the bay. What they explain to us makes me think that I missed a lot while snorkeling with Thomas […]
