Another trawl

On Saturday, 12th of January "Polarstern" had to abort the operation for a while as a storm with winds from the east and northeast was approaching. The risk of getting caught in the canal by heavy pack ice was too high. While waiting for the storm, we got the chance to deploy another bottom trawl in 600m depth. The catches were very rich and impressing. There was "Icefish", giant isopods, millions of crinoids and much more. There was no chance to get lunch or coffee break that day as we had to process and fix most of the samples immediately. Other animals, especially isopods and amphipods could be kept alive in sea water aquaria in cooling containers.
I had the chance to intensively use my mini aquaria to take pictures of a lot of crustaceans. This day Saskia and me had to present a talk about isopod phylogeny. Saskia did the main part and I presented some thoughts about my upcoming diploma thesis. Indeed, compared to both previous talks on board I felt very uncomfortable before and during this talk. On the one hand I was exhausted due to the all day's hard work, on the other hand there are a lot of uncertainties concerning my thesis. Well, there is still some time to think about all that.