ESA Ocean Training Course: Life aboard in pictures

The biology team getting ready to collect water from the conductivity, temperature and depth rosette. (Ocean Media Lab)

Deck crew getting ready to drop the conductivity, temperature and depth rosette and students following the process closely. (Ocean Media Lab)

Sejal Pramlall, PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, taking notes after the first conductivity, temperature, and depth drop. (Ocean Media Lab)

Jesper, the bosun on board, getting ready to drop the conductivity, temperature and depth rosette. (Ocean Media Lab)

The biology team & students collecting water from the conductivity, temperature and depth rosette. (Ocean Media Lab)

Deck crew waiting for deployment of the conductivity, temperature, density rosette. (Ocean Media Lab)

Sub-sample for 16S RNA of the microbial community associated with plankton. (Ocean Media Lab)

Brishan Kalyan, PhD candidate at the South African Environmental Observation Network and Nelson Mandela University, taking samples to measure nutrients. (Ocean Media Lab)

Dr Kat Morrissey getting ready to collect phytoplankton with a 20 micrometre net from a depth of 100 m. (Ocean Media Lab)

Resulting plankton sample. (Ocean Media Lab)

Student Oliver Kai Hansen deploying a plankton net. (Ocean Media Lab)

Once the net is back on board, it needs to be rinsed. (Ocean Media Lab)

We then use a two-step process, filtering through a 50 micron filter followed by 250 micron filter. (Ocean Media Lab)

Fabrice Collard & Johnny Johannessen showing student Victoria Christine Zoeller the surface wave drifting buoys, which measure position and wave height as they drift. (Ocean Media Lab)

Heading to Iceland. (Ocean Media Lab)

Flags against blue sky. (Ocean Media Lab)

Sunrise. (Ocean Media Lab)

Sunset. (Ocean Media Lab)

Lecture on geodesy being given by Roger Haagmans. (Ocean Media Lab)

Captain Marcus Seidl gives briefing about the weather, and deciding whether to take the north or south route around Iceland. (Ocean Media Lab)

The ship’s crew listening to a lecture on phytoplankton. (Ocean Media Lab)

This is first and foremost a ship with sails. (Ocean Media Lab)

Everyone has to set and trim the sails. (Ocean Media Lab)

Learning about sail names. (Ocean Media Lab)

Learning about knots from a crew member (left). (Ocean Media Lab)

Keeping watch. (Ocean Media Lab)

At the helm, steering the ship. (Ocean Media Lab)

Morning yoga on deck in 2°C. (Ocean Media Lab)

Crew member at the helm. (Ocean Media Lab)

Students rehearsing for a sea shanty competition. (Ocean Media Lab)

Haakon Vatle is a world-renowned shanty man. He is also the CEO of the Statsraad Lehmkuhl Foundation. (Ocean Media Lab)

Life in the rigging at 05:00. (Ocean Media Lab)

Deck crew & leader of the white watch, Christine Thoresen. (Ocean Media Lab)

Student, Inès Louise Marion Larroche. (Ocean Media Lab)

Time to eat. (Ocean Media Lab)

Eating together. (Ocean Media Lab)

The Buoy Watch in the snow – looking for anything in the water, and eyes open in case of a “man over board”. (Ocean Media Lab)

The expedition continues, no matter the weather. (Ocean Media Lab)