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I made a dive today to about 1950 feet. That’s more or less 600 meters.

On my way down, at around 200 feet, I looked up to see porpoises swimming down between the surface and my position. I’m assuming they were Dall’s porpoises because we have been seeing many of them from the deck of the Esperanza. In fact the life we see out here from the deck never ceases to amaze me. I just came down from the bridge where we were observing a pod of about ten or so fin whales off the bow, and last week we saw a pod of Orca whales overtake us near the Pribilof Islands. They were in the distance, but their dorsal fins were huge, even that far away. 

Jeremy lent me his waistcoat for this trip.

Jeremy’s waistcoat is one of those sports waistcoats with lots of pockets. It’s made of mesh so that you can wear it in any weather over anything and it doesn’t affect how hot/cold you are, so it’s more a tool really, than an item of clothing. It is pretty much the perfect piece of attire to wear in the type of submarines we are using because there is not much space in there if you want to bring in any little bits and pieces with you. Having pockets you can reach easily around you makes storing things for the dive so much easier. One member of the team even uses a form of photographer’s shoulder holster system to be able to organize the equipment he takes with him.

am in the process of writing a longer blog, but for now am just testing the system.

we are presently near the north west end of the pribilof canyon and are steaming into position to deploy the ROV to explore the seabed down there.

all is good.