{"id":185,"date":"2012-04-14T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T07:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/?p=185"},"modified":"2012-04-18T07:03:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T07:03:03","slug":"day-14-jour-14-13-april-2012-ua-pou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/2012\/04\/14\/day-14-jour-14-13-april-2012-ua-pou\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 14 (Jour 14) 13 April 2012 Ua Pou"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Bad weather finally caught up with us this morning with heavy rain, wind and swell. Our captain, Marjorie, thought it was \u201cfairly calm\u201d seas in comparison with Marquesas standards, which made us realize how lucky we have been since the beginning of the trip. We gave it a try anyway, and were rewarded with a small group of spotted dolphins to start with, and a large group of melon-headed whales mixed with a few spinner dolphins, very near the exact same spot as yesterday. Unfortunately, heavy rain started soon after we arrived, and we were only able to shoot a few photographs. We decided to go back to the harbor waiting for the bad weather to pass and we gave it another shot in the afternoon although the sea was still rough. By 3pm, we reached the North-East point of the island, but this time we were not able to find the melon-headed whales. A few spinner dolphins were still there, but Beaufort 4 conditions and a large swell made it impossible to attempt biopsy sampling. On the way back, we surveyed the island 3 to 4 km offshore but found no cetaceans (another day without rough-toothed dolphins). However, we ran into a group of about 15 spinner dolphins as we came back along the coast. Again, rough conditions limited our data collection to only a few photographs.<\/p>\n

Le mauvais temps nous a finalement rattrap\u00e9\u2026 Ce matin nous avons eu droit \u00e0 une forte pluie, du vent et des vagues. Notre capitaine, Marjorie, continue de penser que la mer est \u00ab\u00a0assez calme\u00a0\u00bb par rapport au standard Marquisien, ce qui montre bien \u00e0 quel point nous avons eu de la chance avec la m\u00e9t\u00e9o jusqu\u2019\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent. Malgr\u00e9 ces conditions d\u00e9favorables, nous avons tout de m\u00eame tent\u00e9 notre chance et avons \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9compens\u00e9 en trouvant un petit groupe de dauphins tachet\u00e9s pour commencer, puis un grand groupe de p\u00e9ponoc\u00e9phales accompagn\u00e9s de quelques dauphins \u00e0 long bec ensuite. Ces derniers se trouvaient quasiment au m\u00eame endroit qu\u2019hier. Malheureusement, un gros grain est rapidement arriv\u00e9 sur nous, et nous avons seulement pu prendre quelques photos. Etant donn\u00e9 les conditions, nous avons d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de retourner au port en attendant que \u00e7a s\u2019am\u00e9liore, et nous sommes repartis en mer dans l\u2019apr\u00e8s midi. Vers 15h, nous avons atteint la pointe Nord-Est de l\u2019\u00eele mais cette fois les p\u00e9ponoc\u00e9phales n\u2019\u00e9taient plus l\u00e0. En revanche, quelques dauphins \u00e0 long bec \u00e9taient encore sur les lieux mais nous n\u2019avons pas essay\u00e9 de biopser vu l\u2019\u00e9tat de la mer. Sur le chemin du retour, nous avons navigu\u00e9 au large mais sans succ\u00e8s (encore un jour sans dauphins \u00e0 bec \u00e9troit). Cependant, nous sommes tomb\u00e9s sur un groupe d\u2019environ 15 dauphins \u00e0 long bec lorsque l\u2019on s\u2019est rapproch\u00e9 de la c\u00f4te. Une fois encore, une mer difficile a limit\u00e9 notre collecte de donn\u00e9es \u00e0 quelques photographies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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