Crying cockles and mussels

Last week I went to the southern part of the island of Lolland, just across from northern Germany. I went together with Sverre, the captain who is a stocky man from the Farøer Islands and the diver, who is one of the last real Vikings left on the Danish islands. A real giant of 2 m tall and 125 kg.
In three days time we did some 30 sampling points around the place where the bridge or tunnel is supposed to be build. At each sampling spot, the captain would anchor the boat, after which the diver would go overboard (3, 6 or 9 m depth), take pictures, and collect sediment and bottom animals by scooping everything into a very fine-meshed net. On top of that we had to deploy an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP, to measure water current velocities) in the middle of an offshore wind farm. It was supercool to be at sea again, although we had really rough sea at times. Certainly veRy nice to see the spot where people write all the environmental impact reports about...and definitely a spot that makes for good pictures [klik !] ...