{"id":255,"date":"2012-04-23T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/?p=255"},"modified":"2012-05-01T04:46:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T04:46:35","slug":"day-23-jour-23-22-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/marquesas\/2012\/04\/23\/day-23-jour-23-22-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 23 (Jour 23) 22 April 2012 Nuku Hiva"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weather conditions today were once again less than optimal, with high winds and rough seas, but Nuku Hiva\u2019s west cost provided a nice lee stretching several km out, so we were able to survey the inshore and the offshore waters of the west coast.\u00a0 We encountered a few schools of spotted dolphins, and some of the individual dolphins we recognized from previous days. We collected photo-IDs and biopsies from these groups, and were quite pleased because spotted dolphins are the species with which we have had the fewest encounters at Nuku Hiva. On our way back to port along the south coast we encountered a small group of spinner dolphins, but poor sea state conditions did not permit us to collect biopsies. Tomorrow\u2019s weather forecast doesn\u2019t look much better than today\u2019s conditions, but we hope that offshore surveys in the lee of the west coast will provide encounters with other pelagic species.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Les conditions m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques \u00e9taient encore peu favorables ce matin, avec des vents forts et de la houle. Heureusement, la c\u00f4te Ouest de\u00a0 Nuku Hiva \u00e9tait bien prot\u00e9g\u00e9e du vent, offrant une large zone de calme jusqu\u2019\u00e0 plusieurs kilom\u00e8tres au large. Nous en avons donc profit\u00e9 pour naviguer dans cette zone, ce qui nous a permis de trouver quelques groupes de dauphins tachet\u00e9s. Certains individus avec des marques distinctives avaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 observ\u00e9s les jours pr\u00e9c\u00e9dents. Comme tous les jours, nous avons collect\u00e9 des photos et des biopsies mais nous sommes particuli\u00e8rement contents d\u2019avoir pu travailler sur des dauphins tachet\u00e9s car jusqu\u2019\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent nous n\u2019avions que peu de donn\u00e9es sur cette esp\u00e8ce \u00e0 Nuku Hiva. Sur le chemin du retour nous avons rencontr\u00e9 un petit groupe de dauphins \u00e0 long bec mais la mer \u00e9tait trop forte pour pouvoir travailler avec eux. Malheureusement la m\u00e9t\u00e9o ne semble pas meilleure pour demain mais nous essayerons d\u2019effectuer de nouveaux transects au large de la c\u00f4te sous le vent dans l\u2019espoir de rencontrer d\u2019autres esp\u00e8ces p\u00e9lagiques. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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