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Biopapua / New departure
22 September 2010
September 22, 2010 Escorted by dolphins, the new BioPapua science team leaves the smoking volcano of Rabaul on the evening of the 21st of September. On the morning of the 22nd, we successfully start our work off Rabaul, west of Duke of York Island. The first specimens represent a diversified ...
Biopapua / New team
21 September 2010
September 21, 2010 Following the passing of Christian Késiano FITIALEATA, the first leg of the BioPapua cruise was brutally interrupted. The second part of the cruise, which was scheduled for early September, was moved to early October. R/V Alis stayed anchored in Rabaul with a reduced crew for ...
Biopapua / A team under shock
29 August 2010
August 29, 2010 Saturday morning, we pass the cape of New Hanover to find bottoms between 400 and 700 m depth. Since our departure from Lae, concern prevails onboard: one of the crew members, Christian Késiano FITIALEATA, is ill. After contact with the medical team from Toulouse (France), in ...
Biopapua / Direction New Hanover
27 August 2010
August 27, 2010 Wednesday night: departure from Lae, direction New Hanover. At an average speed of 9 knots (nautical mile per hour), we expect 36 hours of transit. We arrive on Friday morning and are welcomed with the jumps of dolphins and a marlin. Unfortunately, the computer managing the ...
Biopapua / Diesel delivery in Lae
25 August 2010
August 25, 2010 We came back closer to Lae, as we wait for a diesel delivery for the boat, and an ethanol delivery for fixation of our collections. These were originally scheduled for last Saturday, the day of departure. We spent the morning working around Lae, with a good harvest of sunken ...
Biopapua / Continuing collections off Lae
24 August 2010
August 24, 2010 Today, we have worked around Tami Island, East of Lae. We found irregular hard substrates that were difficult to work on. The organisms we sampled are different from the ones collected so far. For instance, we found some specimens of Almada, a genus of gastropod with a very ...
Biopapua / First collections off Lae
23 August 2010
August 23, 2010 During the first two days of this first leg, we work just off the town of Lae, between 200 and 1000 meters depth. The trawl brings back a mixture of wood, seeds, branches, leaves and fine mud. We therefore collect our first organisms typically associated with sunken wood. All ...
Biopapua / Cruise start up
21 August 2010
The Biopapua cruise will explore the deep marine diversity of Papua New Guinea, with special focus on the fauna of seamounts and the fauna associated with plant substrates that accumulate in the deep basins near islands. There will be four legs and four scientific teams. The first team boarded ...
In total, 50 fish, consisting of 6 different species, were tagged
16 March 2010
Logbook "MADE" - D11 This morning, we started to fish at 05h30, with better weather than the previous days. Around noon a group of about 30 globicephals arrived at the FAD. In the afternoon, we tagged the last fish of our cruise. This last FAD was very productive with 25 fish tagged, ...
We have started the observations with the echo sounder
15 March 2010
Logbook "MADE" - D10 This morning, while sailing to a FAD, we first got a 20kg yellowfin tuna that we tagged with a miniPAT. A few minutes later, we caught a 200kg marlin that we released without tagging as it is not a target species of the project. But what a nice fish and a great ...
