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Pescadero Basin We are back at sea after a two-day port
call in La Paz, where we cycled personnel, re-provisioned, stretched our
legs, and bent our elbows. We left the dock at 0800 this morning, cleared
the harbor, and headed to the southeast. Years ago, when I was just a pup, I visited
the Gulf aboard Stanford's research vessel Proteus. We happened to
be anchored in La Paz on the warm, star-filled night when Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin first walked on the moon. That night we couldn't buy a
beer. As we walked through the dark streets of the town, we could see TV
sets glowing through the doorway of each little bar. "Hola
gringos, que bueno!" was the greeting wherever we went, and wherever
we went, the beers were on the house. We gringos were proud of what
"we" had accomplished. We humans, Mexican and American alike,
were proud that "we" had reached out and touched the sky that
seemed much closer that night. This week, Americans were all over the TV in La Paz again. This week, the Mexicans we talked with were just as warm, friendly and considerate as they were last week, but it seemed clear that this time there was no shared adventure.
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This was a good dive for fishes as well,
and we saw further evidence that our expectation of latitude-specific
distribution patterns is holding true. We regard the lanternfish Triphoturus
mexicanus as the quintessential Gulf midwater species. Its The gremlin showed up again and shut us
down for a while. Dan Chamberlain
has now chased him back to wherever he comes from, and we seem to be up
and running again. But I think I'll fire this off while I still can... |