L BST & L T S C S S P T C B L L L C S T T S C C T BS T T LS Learn about sea life as we haul our lobster trap • Touch tank See lighthouses, schooners, yachts, mansions & wildlife up close Learn about sea life as we haul our lobster trap See lighthouses, schooners, yachts, mansions & wildlife up close Learn about sea life as we haul our lobster trap Comfortable, shaded seating • Beverages sold onboard • Private charters available B L www Camden arborCruises com S B P S T T C T B T T P BL C L , C , P T C B L L L C B C S S southportmarine.com • 207-799-8191 14 Ocean St. South Portland, ME 04106 91 Bridge St. Salisbury, MA 01952 high SeaS 162 P r t L a n d montHL maga ine “There’s a shallow ledge underneath us. That’s why these lobster pots are clustered here.” He gestures at the colored buoys ap- parently bobbing in the middle of nowhere. “Nasty things. You don’t want to get tan- gled in them.” The students look around. Beyond this zone there are no lobster pots, no lobster boats. While the ocean appears to surround us with sameness, the chart–and the lob- stermen–say otherwise. Tonight, we’ll hunker down for the night in a gray-shingled cabin on a small island ten miles out to sea. Bagheera cruis- es back and forth in the small cove, try- ing to drop anchor. The crew will keep watch over the schooner in four-hour shifts through the night. S leeping gear covers the cabin floor. Cooking equipment and coolers tee- ter in mounds on the cabin porch. Two students–Leia and Avery–are assigned to to- night’s kitchen duties. Avery likes to enter cooking competitions, so he’s rummaging through the spices. Leia looks out at Bagheera, secure in her anchorage in the cove. “What would we do if she weren’t there in the morning?” The next day breaks murky and gray. Mercifully, Bagheera is still in sight. Once we are under way, the Captain sails direct- ly to the first research location of the day: Monhegan Island. The students arm them- selves with small, yellow field notebooks with waterproof pages. Leia carries the CTS sonde–a tube- shaped, electronic multi-sensor probe– up from below decks and hands it to Ben and Joe. “I’m going to lay out the sonde cable first.” Ben stretches the electronic data ca- ble along the deck to untangle it. “Hey, this is just what the crew does with the rope!” The crew doesn’t even flinch at this flat- lander use of “rope” instead of “line.” “We need two people recording data: