I thought adjusting to the 12am-12pm shift would be a long process since it’s nearly the opposite hours of my regular life schedule, but the anticipation of seeing new ocean creatures every night shift along with the excitement and gorgeous weather during the day shift have made the transition a breeze. Being up in the early morning means I get to enjoy many sunrises and yesterday’s sunrise was particularly beautiful with the contrast of a dark lightning storm on the starboard side and the sun rising on port. In fact, for the past two nights there has almost been a constant stream lightning along the horizon.

On our transit to our most southern station we stopped by a data buoy for some fishing. Long term floating devices in the middle of the ocean are usually a good place to find fish and yesterday’s buoy did not disappoint. We saw some beautiful mahi-mahi and a few small sharks!

By: Emmanuelle Cook (Graduate student at Dalhousie University)