Latest cruise
AMT29 Departed the UK on the 13th October on the
RRS Discovery and reached South America on the 23rd November 2019.
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cruise participants on Twitter using the hashtag #AMT29 on twitter.
Cruise blog
03 December 2019
An abrupt awakening!! Cloudy skies, rain and then back into a storm. We had officially navigated out of the tropics and into the Southern Ocean...
14 November 2019
From the 4th to 9th November 2019, we passed over the equator and into the South Atlantic Gyre.
07 November 2019
After a couple of weeks of storms, the ocean has become like glass with a slow undulating ripple. The ship cuts through the oily slick effortlessly...
28 October 2019
From the 19 October 2019 we continued to steam South West navigating through waters deeper than 4500m. The journey took us parallel to the Bay of...
23 October 2019
An International consortium of 25 scientists from 11 different countries joined the Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery in Southampton on 10...