http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceans and Seas , Atlantic , North Atlantic en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 22:00:34 +0000 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:00:34 +0000 Crossing back across the Atlantic sailors largely have two choices go direct from the Caribbean to the Azores or go via Bermuda and skip around the western edge of the Azores High to get a better wind angle for the Azores. By choosing to head to Bermuda additional miles are added to the crossing but rather than facing an upwind slog all the way to the Azores with retching children and adults i http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/Gulf-Stream/blog-786518.html FIRST TRIP ON PLANE 1975 TO JAMACIA FOR 199.00 7DAYS FOOD HOTEL AIRFARE LOVED IT MUST GO http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/blog-759823.html Up early for an 800 am seaweed wrap massage 2 hours of heaven. Then up to breakfast and started playing golf for most of the day. Veterans Day celebration and memorial on board today 2 minutes of silence wreath in piazza and memorial service this afternoon. Drinks before dinner with Barb Gary and dinner with the gang. Watched 2 World Champion Ballroom Dancers do 2 dances. Noth http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/Gulf-Stream/blog-754957.html Cmo reaccionar cuando los temblores se inicia si est al aire libreA pesar de las rplicas pueden continuar ahora se trabajar para conseguir tu vida tu hogar y la familia y sus rutinas en orden. Asegrese de que su casa sea segura para ocupar y no en peligro de derrumbarse durante los temblores secundarios. Si usted fuera capaz de permanecer en su casa o volver a ella despus de unos http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/Gulf-Stream/blog-736918.html Stomach pains are by far the most disgusting phenomenons who ever ever a mankind. Generally debating a mankind cannot even make an attempt to feel your partner39s stomach or make an attempt to do things for gods reason when he experiences that searing pain from his your life. He tries for you to do everything which he can that allows you to avert it again from occurence but you can find http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/Gulf-Stream/blog-736776.html My family and I are headed to St. Thomas in the British Virgin Islands on 08 Aug 2012. I39m still in the planning stage now. I have booked air fare and hotel accomodations but still need to make dinner daily excursion reservations. Stay tuned for an exciting trip http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/Gulf-Stream/blog-732017.html Two days left. Thats it.We had some great plans for the last few days trying to fit in a few more samplings before its all over. But the CTD had other ideas. It broke down just before our 100th cast so we cant sample the water like we used to. We do have ondeck experiments that need to be sampled and weve pumped water from various depths and gave them a go but its not the same. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/blog-729901.html 6thJuly 2012 As promised here is a little description of the wildlife weve encountered in the past few weeks and well start from the bottom up.First and foremost there are the algae and the virus. I know some of you might think What Thats wildlife but yes to me it is. These organisms are just as amazing as any other and the more we learn about them the more Im struck by h http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/blog-728415.html 3rdJulyIts another beautiful morning here at 61oN 33oW just off the coast of Greenland. The Arctic Circle is at 66oN so we39re not too far off. Since we set sail about 17 days ago weve been warned that we39re in the North Atlantic so stormy cold wet weather is to be expected. In the past few days however we hear this just isnt right Its never this nice for so long i http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/blog-727631.html Kids were very late getting up so Kerry I went to breakfast on our own. I had two eggs sunny side up with a few hash browns. We ate out by the Lido pool deck. Beautiful day again as we have been getting used to.We then went and did the Trivia at Jeevs Lounge which was a sports trivia. For future reference the NFL team known as Americas team is the Dallas Cowboys the Cotton Bowl i http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/blog-727096.html A really late start and we barely made it to the end of the third breakfast sitting around 11.30AM. We checked out the things to do list and Luke went of to his Basketball games Elise had agreed to check in with her new friends at midday so Kerry I were on our own again A bit overcast but still warm and captain said water temp was 26 degrees not that I was planning on jumping overboard at th http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/blog-726898.html Day 12 Its just over a week and a half since we left Ponta Delgada and we are settling nicely into a routine. ltspangt We are traveling back and forth from areas of suspected high biomass to areas we think have been infected by viruses sampling along the way to see if we can catch the interesting stuff. If you take a look at the route the Knorr has sailed in the past few days httpwww http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/blog-726290.html Day 9We39re out in the vast open ocean and the biology we39re looking for is also out there diluted in throughout the water column and mixed with other organisms that may hinder our experiments. So... we filter. We filter to concentrate the algaethe viruses and many other molecules of interest. We also use filters to separate the desired fractions from those we don39t want in our samp http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Atlantic/North-Atlantic/blog-725758.html Day 8 23 June 2012 We havent hit gold yet but were getting into a good working routine. We usually start the day just before sunrise sampling the water at 0500 and end the day close to midnight finishing off the evening sampling and preparing for to coming morning. 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