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Our third seal captured and tagged means we've matched our success in 2009. Stay tuned to see if we can break the record.

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John, Shawn, Al, and myself set on two big ogruks, neither of which stumbled into our nets. But a third...

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This seal gets the award for most tolerant, and us for most inept. We circled this seal almost entirely...

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Smiles all around because I about fell in the water after I set the timer, sprinted to the boat, and misjudged the edge of the ice.

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Our first seal capture. It's a thoughtful enterprise bringing a large aquatic mammal from the water up on ice without injuries to it....or us.

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Isn't there a yoga position that resembles this seal balancing on its belly?

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Star Wars, Princess Leia, Desert...need I say more. Despite the similar mass, this guy is actually quite beautiful! And has a normal tongue.

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After our first capture, to celebrate our Native collaborators (and friends) from Kotzebue invited us to...

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We've had an amazing string of good weather so we've been trying to keep the seals cool in temperament and temperature.

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Preparing to weigh our first seal so we can promptly start inflating the figure with each telling of the story. It weighed 355 lbs, for real!

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Peter and John doing a "half set", probably waiting to see if the seal resurfaces before...

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Buzzing out to the capture area, following the lead our the Native Eskimos who've been finding these...

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At seal camp near town this woman was mending a herring net, which resembles a spider web. We heard...

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It's dry, reasonably flat, and the cold doesn't seem to bother their toes, webbed feet...whatever, But...

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Virgil (driver/owner) is known for an expedient return to shore, esp after a long day on the water. And...

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Scanning for seals in the ice. Might look like loafing, but finding seals in dirty ice is alot like...

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The creature on the right must be a super-sized subspecies of bearded seal. It's gotta be the longest...

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We saw a few groups of bearded seal today, up to 8 on one floe. We usually see them solo so it seems there's a convention.

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Uploaded on Jun 15, 2011

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