The Mariana Trench Monument
“Holy smokes!” peering alongside Dr. Doug Bartlett at his computer screen, I was introduced to the 20 cm long amphipods discovered on the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER dive to 27,000 feet in the New Britain Trench.
An Issue on Everyone’s Mind
This morning, just after sunrise, on the pier in front of the Mermaid Sapphire, a Japanese fishing vessel offloaded hundreds of yellowfin tuna.
A Significant Discovery
Just before noon, the Mermaid Sapphire lay half a mile away from the island on an ocean simmering with heat. We could smell wood smoke from a cook fire somewhere inside the thick green jungle behind the beach.
