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Welcome aboard Joss - looking forward to reading about your adventures and seeing some more of the amazing life out there in the big blue!

Hi Joss :-)

Welcome aboard!

Goodbye to Dave and thank you for all your hard work - your posts have been very informative and Ive enjoyed reading them.

Joss, the Azores sound amazing - I hope you get to see lots of marine life - and take lots of pictures so we can all share it with you. The Giant Squids would be fab!

Peace, Irene xx

Hi Joss. As a "whale fanatic" really looking forward to this next leg of the journey and the reports, images you will post.

Really interested in whale census work. Hope you get to record some cool whale vocalizations with the hydrophone that you can share with us here.

Wishing you success on this next voyage.

Hi Joss!

There must be hundreds or thousands of people who thank all you crews for causing us to get better educated on the seas, and on what is being done to ecosystems everywhere. I really appreciate it & am excited to find out more each day, and to learn from you all to have & use a voice for the creatures & places I so love.
Some questions:
Sperm whales, aside from being by far the biggest brains on earth, are travelers, aren't they? Do their populations have specific migration patterns?
The Azores are on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Is there much vulcanism there, like Iceland? Many or any geothermal vents?
I talk with a retired fisherman here, and he uses the term "draggers" to refer to small trawlers. That means that this problem comes in all sizes, just about everywhere. Have you any information about what can be done to get local fishermen to change this method of fishing?

Hey Joss,

Glad to see you arrived safely! Hope you've stocked up on factor 30...

Jamie

Hi Joss, Richard and the rest of the crew and oceans defenders.

This is to promise that I will shortly provide you all with an up-date on the current state of legal protection for Azorean deep sea habitats and the ongoing court case brought by the regional government of the Azores against the EU Fisheries Council regarding the decision to open waters around the Azores to all European Community fisheries (now somewhat superseded by the trawl ban). Greenpeace, WWF and Seas at Risk have supported the arguements of the Azorean government by provising additional information on the ecology and significance of the area. In the meantime, if someone cares to see the type of legislation that now puts in place prohibitions on 'any bottom trawl or similar towed nets operating in contact with the bottom of the sea', you can find this on:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2004/l_319/l_31920041020en00010002.pdf

Saskia Richartz
EU Ocenas Policy Advisor; Greepeace

Cool information a about of whale, I love whales you are doing a great job keep going Sincery Yeslie

Hi Joss - I am looking forward to following your deep sea discoveries and helping to protect deep sea life in any way I can.

Lisa.

Hi Joss..., ...and welcome home. ...and thanks very much Dave Walsh, you made the last part of the journey something special. That was a great input from you in the blogs about so many different things. I hope Greenpeace has another suitable assignment to match the quality of your awesome characture, ...and success in your mission. Thanks very much Dave, ...wishing you Love and Light always. ...and this just keeps getting better, ...now that you've joined up with the IFAW, ...another great humanitarian organization. I have a couple of friends there and will be sure to thank them for this co-ordinated effort. It's great to see you hanging in here too Echo, ...I've enjoyed your positive and excellent comments, ...do you have a website we can all look at? Good luck to you Joss, and especially to you Dave and Andrew. Love to you all in the Azores...

Hey Grateful - thanks! I'm currently recuperating in Dublin, only got home on Tuesday, so I'm not planning on going anywhere for a while.