Another suggestion to tackle the boredom is to try our hand at fishing. A friend's daughter kept the boat in fish last year using para cord and tuna lures:
"Take 100 meters of para cord x2 then buy 10 good quality Tuna lures, most importand it is not fishing line as you will never be able to pull it in. There quite a few books on trolling fishing but they all refer to rods, you are better to keep them on VERY heavy plastic reels and just tie the actual reel to the stern and then put a slip knot in the cord so the fish can bite then takle up the slack before the hooks bite in. Use gloves at all times. It is unlikely you will get Tuna away from the Azores coast but once deep ocen you can get anything..... Best speed to go with a lure out is 5 to 9 knots"
My only fishing experience was using static lines off a reef in the Maldives where we caught some large groupers for the resort. Anyone else got any fishy tales to share?
James reckons nobody ever catches fish off the continental shelf and that ties in with my knowledge of ocean productivity - once depths exceed 200m, there is reduced source of sediments to stir into the water column to add the nutrients required for the algal plankton, on which the rest of the free-water food chain is built. Nonetheless, schools of opportunistic roaming pelagic species can be found, such as nomadic sharks and tuna.
Did you know that tuna are actually slightly warm-bodied? They can maintain a body temperature 5 to 10 degrees warmer than the water and so assist them achieving higher metabolic rates and allowing sustained fast swimming.
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