Pioneering surfing off Inaccessible Island
Report from Expedition Leader Paul Rose
Ryan Jenkinson catches a wave. Photo by Roger Horrocks
If you are lucky, once in your lifetime you may get the chance to experience something no one else on this planet has ever previously experienced. For some it may be climbing a particular mountain, for others diving to the deepest, darkest corners of the oceans. Today, it was a few moments of bliss caught amidst our busy Pristine Seas expedition schedule to enjoy one of the things that made me fall in love with the ocean in the first place.
Sometimes a little R&R is just what the crew needs. Here, after a day filled with diving, two great pelagic camera deployments (with rare beaked whale footage and a hungry blue shark), bottom-of-the-ocean drop cam operations, seal counting on Nightingale, and a recovery of naturalist/adventurer Mike Fay from a botanical overnight on Inaccessible Island, a few of our explorers got a chance of a lifetime to experience a never-before-surfed wave.
The wave drops and Chris Thompson comes into view. Photo by Roger Horrocks