What a surreal experience!! South Polar Skua 🇦🇶 seen flying directly above the #RVCelticExplorer during leg 1 of #WESPAS (22/06/2019). H’up!

First experience of sea ice of CE20009 just of the Greenland coast! Current water temperature is -0.8 #RVCelticExplorer Earth & Ocean Sciences @GeogNUIG Marine Institute Ryan Institute @ University of Galway Centre for Ocean Research & Exploration JPI CE2COAST Research Project JPI Climate & MAGICA

And we're off! #MoChaSCan leg two is officially go. We should arrive at the Porcupine Bank Canyon by Saturday morning 😊

#PBC #coldwatercorals #ROV #RVCelticExplorer #uccmarinegeo Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC Marine Institute TECHNICAP-RATTI F. Nortek Group

First lander deployed! #MoChaSCan Marine Institute #RVCelticExplorer

Nice Wilson’s Storm Petrel feeding next to a dead Pilot Whale that was being devoured by Blue Sharks! 40 odd miles Southwest of the Scillies. #rvcelticexplorer

This was my view from the crow’s nest on the #RVCelticExplorer . These pilot whales were tail slapping and spy hopping throughout the entire visual survey! This is the second day in a row we’ve witnessed these animals in such huge pod sizes. Absolutely amazing to watch😍

That’s all folks, the #WESPAS survey is done and dusted! Here are some of the bits and bobs we saw on our 3 week long voyage. Big fish list lacked a bit alright, but we made up for it with our marine mammals, birds, and of course the jellies 😉 #RVCelticExplorer

We arrived to the #Porcupine #Bank #Canyon early and dive 1 has started on the night shift! Now to retrieve our first #lander 🤞

#MoChaSCan #uccmarinegeo #RVCelticExplorer #ROV #Holland1 Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC Marine Institute TECHNICAP-RATTI F. Nortek Group

Cracking first few days on the #RVCelticExplorer for the 2nd leg of #CSHAS2018 . Steady passage of #migrants with fieldfare, black redstart and chiffchaff to name a few.. 🐥 But the strangest sighting so far? Probably the grey heron circling above the ship 35 miles from land!

My station for the next 4 hours on #RVCelticExplorer mapping the seafloor on our deep sea exploration cruise #CE18012 The rest of our time is spent with the ROV #Holland1 and sorting deep sea samples with Prof Louise Allcock @[email protected] and Marine Institute

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The #RVCelticExplorer docked at Port of Galway! Looking forward to heading out tomorrow for the Marine Institute ocean climate section survey! Centre for Ocean Research & Exploration Earth & Ocean Sciences Ryan Institute @ University of Galway

My home #RVCelticExplorer for the next 25 days! Heading to the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone #expTOSCA Follow us:
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Fantastic first couple of days on #WESPAS2019 with a Great Skua stealing food off of a Gannet and a Fulmar. Great Skuas are known for kleptoparasitism but it was thrilling to see it up close and personal we also had juvenile Fin whales 😍 #Seabirds #Bonxie #MMO #RVCelticExplorer

When you are excited about rocks at four am you know you have picked the right career #geology rocks #expTOSCA #charliegibbs #deepatlantic #midatlanticridge #rocks #geology #PhDLife #RVCelticExplorer INFOMAR @nuigalway Earth & Ocean Sciences

Incredible sight of some marine mammals this late this morning! Three humpbacks, over a dozen minkes and countless common dolphins spotted by our mmo off the Aran Islands🐋🐬
#WESPAS2021 #RVCelticExplorer

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16000hr vibration damper change out. #RVCelticExplorer #Wartsila20

#RVCelticExplorer in Cork. Marine Institute Research Vessels

Breaching Minke Whale and Common Dolphins Spotted from the #RVCelticExplorer yesterday 👌I was delighted, to say the least 🐳🐳 Smart Sea School Marine Institute @MfrcGmit Paul Connaughton

And we are off!! Next stop the canyon 2.3 km below us. #RVCelticExplorer

Big thank you to the ⁦Marine Institute⁩, the crew of the @RVCelticExplorer and collaborators from ⁦Gavin Foster⁩ ⁦@marum_de⁩ ⁦Earth & Ocean Sciences⁩ and ⁦Bjerknessenteret⁩ for an amazing cruise to the Nordic Seas. Sneak preview here: morpalaeolab.com/?wix-vod-video…