We left the harbor once again this morning (around 10.30) and are now on our way back to the mud volcanoes area. Here are some pictures of our departure. Nous avons quitté de nouveau le port d’Anping ce matin (aux alentours de 10h30) et sommes actuellement en route vers notre seconde zone d’étude, celle des […]
Typhoon Fung-Wong went trough Taiwan yesterday and crossed the eastern part of the island after having changed its trajectory twice. Now it is headed of Shanghai (China). Below are some pictures of typhoon Fung-Wong taken from Internet showing satellite images and variations of its trajectory through time. For safety reason, a total of 2 700 people were […]
We reached the harbor yesterday afternoon. Nous sommes arrivés au port hier après-midi. After receiving the authorization to leave the ship, we decided with Jing-Kang, Liwen, Howard, Jyun-Nai, Eason, Yi-Wei, Sudipta and Theresa to go in town in order to play badminton. After having a look on Internet to find a place where to play […]
8 o’clock in the morning… The sun is shy today and the island’s coast barely visible. We’ve recovered the streamer and the airgun source and are now on our way back to the port. The second typhoon of the month, Fung-Wong, is coming in our working area and should go through Taiwan on Sunday. For […]
We left Anping harbor this evening after having eaten nice Japanese foods in town. When leaving the harbor entrance, several fishing boats were there continuying fishing. In the dark night they all looked like lanterns floating on the water. I found that really beautiful and kept a nice memory of it. But hardly on our […]
Here are some pictures of the Anping harbor this morning when we went in. Voici quelques photos du port d’Anping, ce matin, lorsque nous sommes arrivés.
Halfway between our study area and the coast, we are gently going back to the harbor due to the typhon alert in our working area. We thus stopped recording 3D seismic data this morning and started to recover the P-Cable system at 10 o’clock. We firstly brough back the airgun source then, the starboard paravane, […]
Today was Liwen’s birthday and for the occasion we all wrote her good wishes on post-its in our mother tongue (Chinese, Hindi, German and French) and also sang the happy birthday song in all languages. She was happy! As for the birthday cake, her colleagues gave us a M&M’S box that she shared with everyone. […]
6 o’clock in the morning. I’m awake now since two hours. The sun is rising and the temperature outside is of 28°C. A good starting day! 6h du matin. Je suis réveillée depuis deux heures. Le soleil est en train de se lever et la température extérieure est de 28°C. Une belle journée en perspective […]
We left the harbor today after lunch and continued to set up the equipment. We checked that the flash lights and the releasers of the OBS stations were working properly, and built up the anchors where the OBS will stand; the later ones allowing the OBS to sink and stay on the seafloor. Nous avons […]