Thursday, September 6, 2012

RRS Discovery. After 50 years of service, Discovery Cruise 382 will be her last.

This is Disco's last dance: an entirely* fictional account of the final voyage on RRS Discovery 

 After 50 years of loyal service, Royal Research Ship Discovery (affectionately and appropriately known as Disco) will undertake her last scientific cruise this October/November. This blog will document the facts, fictions and science of this last cruise: Di382. The aim here is not to laboriously describe a CTD but to provide an amusing and sometimes informative account of a research cruise. I can't guarantee that this cruise will be as exciting as our last cruise where we ate freshly caught sushi off bin-bags in the main lab and watched the captain jump overboard. But where fact is lacking, we'll just make stuff up. We will talk science too, I promise. I hope this blog will be of interest to oceanographers, physicists and normal people alike.

I (@ger_the_sea) will be tweeting under #rapidmoc and #discoslastdance during the cruise.

* not entirely fictional