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Thursday, 23 February 2012

Keeping up with the Cefas Endeavour, now off Falmouth.



Weather has forced the Cefas Endeavour to instigate Plan B, an area of hard ground on the 12 mile limit SW of Falmouth - here's the latest post from the boat:


"Sadly we had to run inshore for cover yesterday afternoon as the winds got up from the South West and made it just a little bit to rough to work on the Western Channel rMCZ. However, in true form, we had a plan B. About 12nm off Falmouth is another rMCZ, so we headed inshore to work our way around it. This particular area was expected to be very hard, so we rigged up the drop camera (pictured below) and deployed this on every position before Hamon grabbing. That way we could identify any position that the Hamon grab would not successfully retrieve a sample."
Drop camera photo courtesy of Brian aboard the Endeavour.