Crabs
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Description: Crabs eat clams. Spectacled eiders, a type of bird, also eat clams. One question that Jason has is: How many crabs are competing with spectacled eiders for food?
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Lifting the Grab
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Description: A system of cables and pulleys slowly lifts the heavy van Veen from the water. It is loaded with a muddy sediment from the bottom of the Bering Sea.
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Animals in the Grab
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Description: This box of muck contains all sorts of tiny creatures. After washing away the mud, we find clams, sea worms, and more.
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Trawl Net
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Description: We will drop this net overboard from the rear of the ship. Then we’ll pull it up to see what we’ve caught.
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Crew Raising Flag
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Description: Ice now surrounds the ship. A member of the Coast Guard raises a flag to help other crewmembers determine the wind’s direction.
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Bow with little ice
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Description: When we first began to encounter ice, it was scattered in little chunks.
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View from Porthole
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Description: My room has a porthole that is about 1 foot in diameter. You can look through it here to see Unalaska’s mountains.
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Steep Stairs
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Description: The stairs here are called ladders. Not a good sign when you have to climb them with a load of gear piled on your back.
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Patty and Ring
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Description: Bundled up in several layers, I went to the bridge to watch the ship push off from port.
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