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The
Summary from A watch:
0630 Breakfast (egg-english muffin-cheese sandwiches, bacon,
orange juice, fruit, cereal)
0700 Wash Deck.
C watch had boat watch, coiled
0830 Raised foresail, Raised
Anchor
0930 – 1000 Got otter
trawl equipment ready
1000 Otter Trawl and took
out catch
1220 Lunch
Today we started the morning
off with an otter trawl in Gloucester Harbor.
We had a great catch including skates, flounder, crabs,
a sea star, a lobster, a sea raven and much more.
Student counted and identified the different species.
As we tallied our numbers, we left Gloucester and
headed north. Along the way students began to carry out their science
experiments.
During our time at sea,
students will plan and carry out a science project based on
the scientific method. So
far, each watch has generated a hypothesis and planned how
they will collect data. Students will spend time learning background information and
have based their experiments on the equipment we have onboard,
and their own interests.
Here are each watches
hypothesis:
A Watch: At depth their will
be less dissolved Oxygen, lower temperature, less Ph and
greater salinity
B Watch: At depth their will
be less plankton (turbidity) and greater salinity
C Watch: Temperature and
plankton. There will be more plankton at Stellwagen Bank then at the
Isle of Shoals.
During the afternoon,
students learned the parts of the boat and did some
navigation. We
came to anchor off of Appledore Island, the most Northern
Island on the Isle of Shoals located in Maine. Students
are beginning to adjust to life onboard and the schedule of
watches and we enjoyed an evening program of creature features
and a story from Bob Bartlett’s book “Sails Over Ice”
before turning in to bed.
The following poetry was
written by C watch. They
were given a word and asked to write a line.
They then passed on their poem and someone else added
the next line without reading the first line.
Here are three examples:
Covered by clouds, the
sun shine yet still blinds my eyes,
The sails puffed as they were filled by a light but forceful
wind.
We hauled away, because we hated to stay
The bow of the boat show me my journey ahead,
Copepod is a long word like quetzelcoat
We sat on the bowsprit, staring at the ocean,
The new crew members climbed aloft happily
The sun is restoring my
strength,
The sail worked as well as two leased horses
Haul away the crew shouted happily
Several people kept watch on the bow
The very life force of the sea, copepod plankton, ride upon
the ocean swells
And with that, the ocean moved us away far away from any
life we knew
The wind blows away my
problems,
Haul in not poetic
Everyone bowed their heads happily as they watched the sails
fly
The lovely copepods swam with glee
Aloft the magnitude of the ocean comes clear as you look in
all directions and see nothing but water
The sun’s rays alight off the ocean
~C Watch~
Program Coordinator:
Gretchen Stuppy
Captain: Sophie Morse
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