Subject: Data/NSB/June 24 1997/Center for Oceanic Research and Education/Yankee Fleet
Yankee Fleet: Carol Hill/Lisa Foerster (yankee@tiac.net)
Wed, 25 Jun 1997 14:25:01 -0700
Vessel: Yankee Spirit
Location: Gloucester, Massachusetts
Date: June 24, 1997
Organization: Center for Oceanic Research and Education (CORE)
Sea Ht: 3"-1.5 feet
Swell: 1 foot
Weather: Bright, Hazy
Cloud Cover: high clouds 10/10ths
Wind: 10-13 knots, South
Visibility: 7 kilometers
Weather Change at 1500, increasing wind to 13-17 knots
SPECIES # TIME LORAN(13/44) BEHAVIOR ID/PHOTOS
Mn 3 1421-1438 799/308 travelling Echo, 2 unknowns
97-25L, 18-21
Bp 1 " " in area
Ba 1 " " in area
Mn 1 " " in area
Mn 1 1440 796/306 passed by
Mn 2 1443-1510 786/309 flick feeding Dome and Wyoming
97-25L, 22-25
Bp 1 1506 779/308 passed
Mn 1 1514 774/311 passed
Bp 2+2 1525 762/303 passed 97-25L, 26,27
Mn 2 1529-1542 764/297 travelling Lava and Salt
97-25L, 28-30
Ba 1 " " in area
Bp 1 1541 767/295 in area
Mn 2 1548-1559 762/297 travelling Thread and Milky Way?
97-25L,31-34
Bp 2 1610 771/297 travelling Mother/calf pair
Trip totals: 12 humpbacks, 10 fin whales, 2 minke whales
Birds observed: Double crested cormorants, Herring gulls, Greater black-backed gulls,
Ring-billed gulls, Common terns, Common eiders, Wilson's storm petrels, Sooty
shearwaters, Greater shearwaters, one Manx shearwater, Juvenile Northern gannets.
Also observed a school of Giant Bluefin Tuna on the surface next to boat.