HUGE shout out to Mike Duffy and James Bennet (the Chief Steward and Mess Attendant on the RV Endeavor) who made the best brussel sprouts for dinner tonight. They were delicious. Having good food on the ship makes everything else on this ship work more smoothly so we really appreciate them keeping us well fed.

The recovered lander had been sitting on the bottom of the ocean recording data for the past 6 months.  The largest lander dataset is being recorded by an array (or coordinated set of) hydrophones.

Today we had a seabird escort – a northern gannet who flew alongside us for about half an hour, diving down now and then to grab flying fish as they leapt out of the way of the bow.

I am Rachel Eckley, a current MS student at Nova Southeastern University, and I am assisting with fish identification on this ADEON cruise. This cruise marks my first time out at sea, and I am happy to report that I have not yet had to battle any seasickness *hears the faint sound of Bri Cahill knocking on wood in the distance.*

I am Cristian Graupe, a 1st year graduate student in Ocean Engineering at URI. I am a volunteer for this cruise, helping recover, refurbish, and deploy the acoustic landers. Today was yet another exciting day of transit aboard the R/V Endeavor, leaving us with plenty of time to take good care of our first recovered sub sea station and give it a nice, well deserved cleaning. Turns out, spending 6 months at the bottom of the ocean can take quite a toll on hardware.

Hello from the first full night shift at the Endeavor! I'm Julia, a PhD Student at Duke University, and this is my first research cruise. All of us are excited to get to work after four days or so of transit and (for some of us) sea sickness.

Thankfully yesterday, the wind and waves calmed down quite a bit and I was able to be a social human once again and hang out with everyone! In an attempt to train our bodies to be on the night shift timeline, we stayed up all night playing games—Taboo and Monopoly Deal—and made our way to the bridge to stargaze, a few of us even saw shooting stars!

November 4, 2018: Hello from the R/V Endeavor! Kate here as a UNOLS volunteer from Portland State University. Due to weather we were forced to come farther south to begin the science. I started bright and early at 0600 for the first Marine Mammal Observation (MMO). It was a beautiful sunrise but alas there were no sea critters to be spotted.

Hi all, Quintin here! I’m a volunteer from Maine, pitching in on ADEON 3 before I continue on to graduate school in 2019. It’s day three of our overall cruise, and as we’re now in day two of rougher waters, our rocky transit down south has been less than calming for most people’s stomachs, including my own. As I’m writing this in what I believe is my *looks at watch* 40th hour of being confined to my bunk by the looming threat of seasickness, I can’t help but admit that I have seen little outside the ship’s portholes besides a stormy sea.

I am Chloe Nunn, a recently finished graduate student from the University of Southampton,UK bringing you one of today’s blog posts from the R/V Endeavor! We are currently passing the Carolina’s, having skipped a couple stations due to inclement weather. Hopefully we will be able to start this evening at the next station.