Annual Cruise to Study Gulf 'Dead Zone' Celebrates 40 Years Amid Cuts That Threaten to Ground It
Despite being called a "cruise," the people on board The Pelican described the experience on the hypoxia monitoring expedition as
very different from the elaborate dinners on a towering vacation ship or booze- and buffet-filled Caribbean itinerary.
Passengers described waves up to five feet high in the Gulf of Mexico, swinging the 116-foot research vessel like a pendulum, plaguing anyone who didn't have sturdy sea legs with bouts of seasickness. Daytime temperatures in late July soared ever...
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