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    7 months ago

    Climate Scientist/Researchers: Cruise ship industry are not environmentally friendly and help accelerate climate change.

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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Over the course of four trips, tourists on an Antarctic cruise ship watched researchers lower a camera into the frigid, icy waters of the Southern Ocean.

    While they expected lectures from geologists, marine biologists, and other experts, they didn’t necessarily know there would be a full research station aboard.

    “There isn’t that much that’s known about it because it’s so elusive,” according to Myrah Graham, a master’s student at Memorial University’s Marine Institute who accompanied Mulrennan on one of the expeditions.

    They’re also difficult to preserve for long-term study, and so a lot of the fundamentals about them aren’t known, including how old they get, details of their reproduction, and the population size, Graham said.

    In order to accommodate the cruise passengers’ itineraries of seeing penguins and seals — what Mulrennan called “air-breathing cuties” — the researchers had to pull all-nighters when the ship was in the deep ocean.

    During 58 days at sea, Kolossal’s camera captured over 80 marine species, including giant volcano sponges, dragonfish, icefish, Antarctic sun stars, and — maybe — a colossal squid.


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