This week we finished up the first leg of the voyage doing the last bit of habcam piloting and annotating after briefly bringing it back on deck for maintenance and putting it back in the ocean. We briefly docked in Woods Hole, Massachusets to restock on supplies and switch out the leg one crew with the leg two crew. Starting on leg two we switch from a 12 on 12 off schedule to a six on 6 off schedule to better accommodate the dredging schedule. We start dredging this leg which involves sending a large net behind the ship which then collects different creatures which are then brought up and sorted depending on what they are. The main species we are after is scallops but we also pull up skates, crabs, hermit crabs, lobsters, and many other different types of fish species like halibut or sea robins. It’s very exciting seeing all of the different species that I previously only saw in habcam pictures and I am excited to possibly see more species.
