14 days on Sable Island: Day 12
We are coming to the end of our stay on Sable Island. Many of the maintenance projects are complete (a large part of doing research on Sable Island) but we still have to catch 8 seals. We only caught one…
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14 days on Sable Island: Day 11
Day 11 was a little like Day 10, except we had less sun, more fog and we caught only one seal despite travelling 80 km around the island. I checked the location of the 4 seals we caught before this…
14 days on Sable Island: Day 10
Our tenth day on Sable Island was spent seal catching. The weather was a mix of sun and fog. There were lots of seals hauled out but the marked seals were difficult to find, and once found they were difficult…
14 days on Sable Island: Day 9
We woke to dark skies over Sable and they soon broke to give a heavy downpour. After a couple of hours however the rain turned to drizzle and then the fog moved in for the day. …
14 days on Sable Island: Day 8
Today was our first day catching seals to deploy satellite transmitters and acoustic tags. There was some other work that needed to be done in the morning but in the afternoon we went out on the search for seals. The…
14 days on Sable Island: Day 7
We are now halfway through our trip. The resupply was completed in the morning and the ship motored its way back to Halifax pulling its load, a 24 hour trip. …