93 days at sea on a job off Jamaica. Mitigating seismic impact on marine mammals.
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Russkiy. Igor and Yevgeniy looking tough
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Clash of Culture. The oil exploration workers discussing the survey area with teh local fishermen
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My home for 93 days. This hunk of rust is the soviet built Akademik Shatskiy which as its name suggests was a load of shatskiy
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Squalor. Here my colleague Greg and I are situated in our soviet cabin with our laptops hooked up to the hydrophones in the night with the p
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Sperm Blow. This freeze frame shows a well concealed sperm whale exhaling with a forward pointing blow which is characteristic of these guys
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Pantropicals. Here you can see the main diagnostic feature of a pantrop which is the small white tip on the beak
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Pantropicals again.
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Pantropical breaching. I was leaning over the bow end of the ship when this pantropical decided to leap through the air whilst bow riding
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Pantrop breach. This is a freeze frame of footage of pantrops breaching while bow riding the ship
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Sperm whale dorsal fin. As you can see it is pretty hard to make out a sperm whale dorsal fin sometimes and here my collegue managed to get
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Short finned pilot whale. Once again it is hard to spot these creatures as often only their dorsal fins are visible
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Dove and Swallow. We had tones of these white winged doves and the cliff swallows
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Full Safety Gear. This was Bobby the fisheries observer wearing the full saftey drill uniform which was brutal in the heat
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Man Overboard Drill. Every friday we had a safety drill and in this case it was a man overboard drill with most of the crew gathered on the
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Big Sergei. This was usual attire for the russians when sunning their bleached and grotesque bodies in the caribbean sun
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Great Blue Heron.
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Me searching for Whales. My collegue and I spent on average 7 hours each every day in the sun scanning for whales dolphins and turtles on be
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Osprey.
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Magnificent Frigatebird.
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Barn Swallow. One of the many birds that hitched aride on the ship and somehow survived
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FRC boat. The is the Fast Recovery Craft which is used for man overboard rescure and repairs
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Scout Boat. The is the ship that went ahead of us to make sure that fishing lines were not snagged
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More Pantrops.
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Pantrop Dolphin.
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Jah dock worker.
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