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Kermadec Trench: Snubs and Hags
After a day or so of steaming towards East Cape, we decided that the weather was still too bad to launch any of the gear safely, so we plodded on down to Poverty Bay.
Stories by Alan Jamieson
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Kermadec Trench: A Turn for the Worse
Seafarers have a strange way of describing things sometimes. For example, 1st officer Steve described today as being a “funny old day” and Captain Lindsey described the weather as “freshening.” This translates to being an absolute disaster of a day, mostly due to the fact the weather turned absolutely terrible.At first light we brought in the hadal-lander in a swell and wind that was really pushing us to the limit...
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Kermadec Trench: The deep-water womble
Ah, I forgot what a joy it is to be on the Kaharoa, a veritable floating bowl of jokes. It is days like today when all the months of preparation and the long hours on deck really pay off.We brought in all three landers this morning; the abyssal lander from 4000 meters, the fish trap from 4250 meters and the hadal-lander from 4500 meters.The video footage was fantastic...
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Kermadec Trench: Boring eels
Another early start today. I released the fish trap first and the ascent and location was good. We scrambled the thing on deck to find it had actually worked.
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Kermadec Trench: Scuttling your Assets
Well, as promised, as soon as we get clear of the north island and over the trench, the sea subsided and the day turned out to be a scorcher. So much so I am now red, partly because I always forget how intense the sun is down this way and partly because we ended up working on deck for about 15 hours straight.Given the early time of arrival and our aim to get into a schedule of deploying in the evening and recovering the gear in the morning, we had some time to do some testing...
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Kermadec Trench: Cook, Kermadec and Kaharoa
Greetings from the RV Kaharoa, voyage KAH 1301. There is not much to report scientifically today as we are still transiting to the first station. We left Wellington Harbour yesterday and sailed through the Cook Straits and up the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island...
