After an unintended longer stay in Lisbon, all scientists and crewmembers arrived well at MERIA S. MERIAN on the 26th<\/sup> of December. The three days stop-over was due to a sandstorm coming from the Sahara to the Cape Verde islands, so that planes could neither land on, nor leave from the island of Sao Vicente. Because of sparse information coming from the airline, we evaluated other options to reach MARIA S. MERIAN as soon as possible. In a short talk with the Master \u2013 he was stranded too \u2013 we discussed the possibility to go to Praia, because planes were still able to land in the capital city of Cape Verde due to an automatic landing system. But, since it was Christmas, flights were already fully booked and we had to exercise patience and hope for better weather conditions, so we would not loose any more time.<\/em><\/p>\n Therefore 10 scientists and 11 crew members had to spend Christmas Eve in Lisbon, while three scientists, who arrived a few days earlier in Mindelo, spend that day on board with the \u201ctrapped\u201d crew members, which could not get off board.<\/em><\/p>\n Owing to these unfortunate circumstances we lost 1 \u00bd working days. We left port on the 2nd<\/sup> day of Christmas at 8:00 pm local time and will soon arrive at our first station. The container is unpacked and labs and equipment are all set up. All scientists are fully motivated and happy that we finally can start working now.<\/em><\/p>\n With the best regards, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leinen los und ab geht\u00b4s! Nach einem unfreiwillig l\u00e4ngeren Aufenthalt in Lissabon, sind am zweiten Weihnachtstag alle Wissenschaftler und Besatzungsmitglieder wohlauf an Bord der MARIA S. MERIAN angekommen. Der dreit\u00e4gige Zwischenstopp war einem Sandsturm geschuldet, der von der Sahara bis auf die Kap Verden w\u00fctete, sodass Flieger von der Insel Sao Vicente weder starten noch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em>Verena Heinath, Kiel University<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/msm70\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2017\/12\/Enlight90_small-480x384.jpg\")
\nDie dichte Staubwolke liegt wie eine Decke \u00fcber den Kap Verden.
\nThe dense dust cloud covers the Cape Verdes like a blanket.<\/em>
\n(Foto: N. Augustin)<\/p>\n