Malaspina

Leg 5 of Malaspina cruise is approaching. As usual, we will use this blog to give information about our activities on board the RV "Hespérides". So, follow our photographs and videos here. Today, we start with a video performed by the public spanish television TVE. Enjoy it!

Ocean acidification

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Las Palmas team

Three more pictures to finish the report of the Coupling Cruise. Below is the Las Palmas team and some of them in Buenos Aires coming back to the real world.

From left to right: Cristián Henríquez (Chile), Marta Moyano, Inma Herrera, Santiago Hernández León, Claire Schmoker, Mónica Hernández, Borja Aguiar, Lidia Nieves, Alex Stegner (France). Below on their knees: Gara Franchy and Ángeles Marrero

Idem

In Buenos Aires: Inma, Gara and Lidia

Ushuaia

We finished our cruise in Ushuaia (Argentina) where we stay for a few days before the long fly to our country. Below some pictures of this nice and cold place at the end of the world.

This is the end

This is the end of the cruise. During the last month we were sampling the Bransfield Strait and the Drake Passage but now the Coupling cruise is over. We sailed to Ushuaia (Argentina) with a rather good weather. The sea was in calm but with some swell. Before we enter the Beagle Channel we stop in Puerto Español in order to wait for the Pilots from the Argentinian Army (compulsory to sail through the channel). Now, we are in Ushuaia. Good food, good meat, vegetables (at last) and some drinks to celebrate the happy end. Below some more pictures of the cruise, some ice (of course) and more specimens of the fauna on board.

The featured ice for today

Sailing in the Drake Passage approaching Cape Horn. As it can be observed the sea is almost in calm.

Cold summer
Esther Pérez from the University of Vigo

Julia Ameneiro from the University of Vigo

Sandra Martínez from the University of Vigo

Santiago Hernández-León from the University of Las Palmas de GC

Gone with the wind

Today, after more than three days waiting for the airplane, six members of the Coupling oceanographic cruise leave King George Island to Punta Arenas in Chile. They finished the work here and they will enjoy a salad this night in a restaurant. We will remain here processing samples and sailing through the Bransfield Strait to Elephant Island. Below some more pictures of the Antarctic fauna. No ice for today.

Just a symbol of the ocean

Ángeles Marrero from the University of Las Palmas ready to go

Elsa Vázquez and Carmen Primo from the University of Vigo, and Juan Bellas from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography prepared to depart

Borja (white cap) and Mónica in the rubber boat leaving the Hespérides

Bye, bye...

Claire Schmoker from the University of Las Palmas

Carmen Primo from the University of Vigo but working in Australia (Tasmania) since some years

Cristina García from University of Cádiz

A whale saying also bye, bye...