By Thomas Ronge | The infamous Patagonian winds kept us at port for three additional days. With this delay, we left for our working area off southern Argentina. Watched by our observers (we will talk about their work in a later blog) we turned on our sediment echosounders and started to ...[Read more]

By Thomas Ronge | Am I fit enough to work for two or three months aboard a research vessel, operating far from civilisation and hospitals? To answer this question, every participant needs to see the AWI-physician for a complete body-check. It’s true, we have a physician, a nurse and ...[Read more]

By Santiago Pineda Metz And so they days pass by, and here we are almost finishing our magical work. Fear not, I did not misuse the word “magical”, and fear not my dear reader, I will explain a bit more about this. Our work on board RV Polarstern during PS96 was done using a gear that is ...[Read more]

by Thomas Ronge | While the current expedition is still at sea, everyone from our cruise is preparing to leave for Chile later this week. But actually we are preparing since a much longer time, so that we ask ourselves: “At which point does an expedition start? When the airplane departs for ...[Read more]

By Henrik Christiansen | Scientists are very busy people (which is also why they rarely write blog entries on time). To be honest most of them could serve as textbook examples of ‘a workaholic’. One may roam the ship at any impossible (night) time and will stumble across sleepy creatures that ...[Read more]