Today. Awesome. Started with an intense evening watch, followed by unending science deployments on midwatch. We assembled the MOCNESS for about an hour, recorded hourlies, deployed MC, brought it back, deployed Hydrocast, brought it back, deployed Neuston, brought it back. Tons of data to record, just with the deployment. Next watch gets to pick through what we found, and rinse the nets. MC is pretty incredible with five nets attached that deploy at different depths. We only sent it down 15 meters -plenty enough to collect the plastics floating near the surface or forced down by wind or weather. We are still learning how to use it, deployed it for the second time today.
in the Pacific Gyre