NOTE: Shop will be closed from Dec 11th, 2025 until Jan 26th, 2026, while I am in the field on Sable Island. Calendar orders only will be fulfilled up to Dec 10th.
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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. …
