Double Chum Day

Today I ended up with two chum trips. I was scheduled for one in the afternoon already and then traded morning assignments with another intern who wasn't feeling well. Unfortunately, there is nothing exciting to report from either trip. In the morning, it rained on and off (fortunately more off than on) and we had continual 2m swell. We were also checking an "exploratory site," so called because it's a site where we don't expect to find sharks this time of year. In the afternoon, we chummed for a short while and then picked up two visiting researchers. They're doing experiments involving Great Whites and Killer Whales so we spent a couple hours towing dummy orcas behind the boat to see in any sharks would breach on them (no such luck). 

The morning chum trip.

The afternoon chum trip.

Rigging up the dummy orcas for towing.