Today was supposed to be the second Alvin dive to The Brine Pool, but due to bad weather, including high winds and waves, the dive had to be cancelled. All day, the ship rocked to and fro, and due to the rolling, the deck had to be closed and a few of our scientists battled with the greatest of sea monsters: sea sickness. On the bright side, this did give us time to work on the rest of the material we acquired yesterday. Most of the day was dedicated to identifying larvae from the first dive under microscopes, especially the Bathymodius larvae, from brine pool mussels. Another project included looking through yesterday’s videos to identify important or interesting clips, which will be used for data and for beautiful highlight reels. Finally, we finished measuring and shucking mussels to store tissue samples.
