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Day: August 13, 2018

$hit happens

Posted on 2018-08-132023-01-06 by Allison J. Gong

Very early in the morning of Sunday 12 August 2018, the F/V Pacific Quest ran aground near Long Marine Lab. I found out about it because the lab facilities manager sent out a global e-mail telling us that a boat had wrecked and telling us that the seawater pumps had been turned off just in…

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