CRUISES OF THE "MICHAEL SARS " 83 



accomplish as much as possible in a limited space of time, and 

 partly to discover what creatures inhabit the various water- 

 strata. 



While on our way to the Azores we hoped to be able to 

 reach the Sargasso Sea and study its peculiar animal life. 

 Accordingly before leaving Gran Canaria we interviewed some 

 Norwegian skippers, who had spent many years in the waters 

 lying between the Canary Islands and the West Indies, and 

 were advised by them not to steer direct for the Azores, but 

 to follow a westerly course as far as the longitude of those 

 islands and then turn northwards. We followed their sugges- 



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Michael Sars" Stations from Canary Islands to the Azores and 

 Newfoundland and thence to Britain. 



tion, leaving Gran Canaria on 27th May, and, as will be seen 

 from the chart (Fig. 62), first steered westwards, making some 

 investigations at Stations 43-52, and then northwards to Fayal, 

 one of the Azores, occupying Stations 53-58, and arrived at 

 Fayal on 13th June. 



Hydrographical investigations were made all this time, and Uniformity 

 we took as many as fourteen water-samples at different depths graphical 

 at each station, from the surface down to 2000 metres, thus conditions and 

 securing some excellent material from this area. Fig. 63 shows ° 

 a section of the ocean on our westerly route. It is remarkable 

 how uniform the hydrographical conditions proved to be. The 



