The power of the Southern Ocean! A storm crossing the Drake Passage, Antarctica! #SDAScience

Breaking ice in the Weddell Sea, #Antarctica ! #SDAScience

Heading towards the Weddell Sea and saw icebergs for the first time!!! Lots of penguins and fur seals as well 🐧🫶🏼🦭 #SDAScience

Fighting jet lag and mild land sickness after returning home… so I’ve put together a compilation of my video clips from the #SDAScience expedition involving animals from our trip to Antarctica!

After a few amazing days on the Falklands (spending most of my time with penguins), we’re packing our bags and getting ready to board the #SDA for some actual science! Time to see how good my sea legs really are #SDA Science

Beautiful sunrise whilst prepping the titanium CTD this morning #SDAScience

We are currently in the Bransfield Strait 🇦🇶 in the search for Antarctic krill 🦐. The whales found them before us but we are now mapping a big swarm using the onboard acoustics. Excited about the prospect of target fishing later on. #RRSSirDavidAttenborough #SDAScience

Spent the morning cleaning all the trace metal CTD bottles and had a test launch with the new robot arm, we’re finally ready to get some actual samples onboard! 1st Drake’s Passage CTD @ 200m going into the water as we tweet! #SDAScience

Fantastic creatures, Antarctic krill. They can live for 5+ years, grow to 5+ cm and have one of the largest biomasses. #SDAScience #RRSSirDavidAttenborough

1st sea spiders of the trip & 1st time I've ever seen them alive. These 2 Nyphons (australe I think) came up in the multicorer. 2nd 📸 is under UV, highlighting their 'hairs'. One was carrying round a large brood.
#SDAScience #seaspidersaturday

Having breakfast in Antartica!!!! #breakfast #Antartica #SDAScience #SirDavidAttenborough

We’re this happy to be crossing 60°S and getting our metal-free towfish in the water to collect surface water for trace metal analysis! The towfish is connected to over 50m of tubing and feeds straight into our clean lab onboard the #SDA ! Pretty darn cool! #SDA Science

A few #seaspider beauties from our test of the Agassiz trawl. A couple of Nymphon species and an Austropallene.
Phpotographing them under UV light to check for any biofluorescence.
Next trawl is 5.5km deep, really looking forward to seeing what we discover
#SDAScience

People or whale watching? #RRSSirDavidAttenborough #SDAScience

Taking part in the Polar Science Trials has given me the opportunity to learn about so many areas of marine science I never thought I’d get to try! Really grateful for the patience of the science teams onboard and for letting me get stuck in to all their cool work! #SDAScience

Tense moments as the multicorer hits the seabed and we watch the first sediment cores collected from #RRSSirDavidAttenborough from 2300m water depth somewhere near Elephant Island #SDAScience

Mixed emotions. Watching a pod of orcas including calves around the ship. But seeing the fierce side of nature as they hassle a humpback and calf #sdascience

After dealing with the roughest seas I’ve ever experienced in the Drake Passage, we are back in the Falklands! I’m still processing so many of the amazing things we’ve seen and achieved this trip #SDAScience

Last sunset before we cast off in the morning and start our journey down South. Very excited for the #Antarctic #SDAScience to come.

All done for Project RaCE:TraX on SD025, lots of seawater and mud to analyse thanks to all the support and enthusiastic help from amazing crew and scientists ❤️
#SDAScience continues, on to moorings and Hesperides Deep!