Posted on 07/16/2022 11:34:45 AM PDT by thecodont
Reporter’s notebook: OPB science reporter Jes Burns shares a strange tale of “crabotage” that emerged as scientists aboard the research vessel Thompson tried to answer complicated questions about the Axial Seamount.
Being out on the research vessel Thompson in the middle of the ocean means never really hearing the ocean at all. There’s engine noise and exhaust blowers and climate control and winches and wind — but very few actual waves.
Being out on a research ship 250 miles away from land means the science never stops. It’s a 24-7 buzz of prepping, deploying and recovering geologic sensors trying to understand complicated questions about what makes volcanos tick — specifically the undersea Axial Seamount, which is about 250 miles west of Cannon Beach.
Being out on the research vessel Thompson also means witnessing firsthand a drama beneath the waves. It’s a story of human against nature, a battle of attrition, on the top of the Pacific Northwest’s most active volcano.
It’s a story I’ve come to call “The Spider Crab and the Seismometer.”
“We expect sabotage, crab sabotage. Because there’s obviously a battle going on between Jason and the crabs at Axial Seamount,” said Oregon State University volcanologist Bill Chadwick, the head scientist on the ship.
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“Battling crabs 250 miles off the Oregon Coast, while studying an underwater volcano”
Bummer..... there is medication available for that.
Intersting story! Thank you for posting it!
something about a razor, an ice pick, and some lighter fluid ...
LOL..... Touche.
Les poissons les poissons how I love les poissons….
**...an underwater volcano.**
Just doing the global warming, that humans won’t do.
Such research ships have, when properly run, every resource allocated and planned. There is a limited on-station time, limited stores (food & fuel) and the weather is seldom cooperative. The science is to get all possible data and get it back on shore to study where the waves are in the swimming pool!
sounds like a post from a gay cruise
Hmmm, my first thought as well.
You fall overboard and you are crab food once the octopuses finish with you along with the dolphins....
I prefer to do battle with crabs using a nut cracker and butter.
Mmmm...crabs. I used to be able to devastate three or four steamed Dungeness crabs in hand-to-claw combat. Haven’t had the chance since moving to Arizona.
Disney cruise?
Or - a dozen Chesapeake Bay Blues steamed and crusty with Old Bay Spice and smoked paprika. Washed down, of course with a dozen pony bottles of Rolling Rock. I used to crab off Broad Creek Point just south of the Bay Bridge near Easton. Using 6 traps I used to be able to get 3 bushels of 7 inch blues in about 2 hours.
My family used to get them in Dungeness Bay outside of Sequim.
Hmmmm.
Interesting and funny. Also, it contains no leftist lies! Thanks for posting.
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