R/V Knorr Sunday Funnies

It's Sunday, so (OF COURSE!) we have a few Sunday Funnies! But before we get into them we need to cover the status of coring.

Right now the winch that lowers and raises the CDH Long Core is not working. The long core was sent down yesterday but an electronics gremlin is squatting in the winch.

Desperate times call for desperate measures so

today Jim Broda and Kathryn Rose brought out the big guns: Betty Bunce's hard hat ("B2"). Betty was the first American woman to serve as Chief Scientist on an oceanographic expeditions.

Today Research Assistant Marti Jeglinski, who worked with Betty, uses

the B2 hard hat, taking Betty's spirit with her on all her sea voyages. Betty's hard hat and spirit has gotten the Knorr back on track before - let's

hope she can do it again!

Back to the mini funnies...

July 18, 2010

Location: Middle of Nowhere

Lat/Lon: 38*24.2674'N / 48* 32.3969'W

Air Temp: stinkin' hot

Wind Speed: enough

to tangle your hair

Humidity: plain old sweaty

Water Temp: bath water

Salinity: nuthin' compared to the pepper

Depth: wicked deep!

(above) Steel Beach! Sun bathing,

yoga-lates, sunset watching

and dozing in hammocks...

(Left) Isabelle and Paola

modeling new Teletubby fashion

(Right) Kathryn and Marti

"mmmmm! mud!"

(left) Sarah has captured our yoga-lates

in hieroglyphics

Frank is READY!

(below) Jeff and Lloyd, making sure

all that sun doesn't go to waste

Hotel Foraminifera

(to the tune of Hotel California, by Eagles)

by A. Dorsk

On a deep abyssal plain, tow net in the drink

foul smell of dead plankton, and they sure stink

on the screen in the main lab, I saw a shimmering light

My max tension rose on the winch monitor

and my line went tight

There she stood on the fan tail

in the waves and the dips

And I was thinking to myself

'this could be WHOI or this could be Scripps'

then she lit up a flashlight and she showed me the way

there were voices in the squawk box

I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the hotel Fo'manif'ra

Such a lovely place

such a lovely carapace

Plenty of bugs at the hotel fo'manif'ra

Any time of year, you can find them here

Her lab is stocked to the ceiling, she got the Zeiss pipettes

she got a lot of pretty pretty bugs that she calls data sets

How she picks at the lab bench, to observe and collect

Some pick to remember, some pick to forget.

So I called up the captain,

'please bring me my wine'

He said, "we haven't had that spirit here since UNOLS

imposed a fine"

And still those voices are calling from far away

wake you up in the middle of the night

Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the hotel fo'manif'ra

such a lovely place

such a lovely carapace

They pickin' it up at the hotel fo'manif'ra

Bring your CTG, and your ATP

Petris on the scope

Cibicidoides on ice

and she said "we are all just scientists here, of our own device"

And at the Jersey margin, they gathered sediment

They stab it with their multi-cores,

But they just can't make a dent

Last thing I remember, I was running for the boat

I had to find a passage back

to my hat and gumby coat

'Relax' said the night watch

We are programmed to DP

You can change course any time you like,

But you can never leave!