Rough seas greeted us overnight before our first full day at sea. Aboard the RV Armstrong, the science team weathered the storm and by mid-morning, the seas had abated enough for a Conductivity, Temperature, and Density (CTD) cast along with the recovery and redeployment of the first ADEON bottom lander.

Work aboard the R/V Armstrong during an ADEON sea trial continues 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but for individual researchers (with the exception of the Chief Scientist, who is always on call), 12 of those hours are free time. A part of this free time is, of course, spent sleeping, but are ADEON researchers doomed to suffer boredom for the rest of the day? Absolutely not!