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"Would you like some cheese with this early 20th century vintage of Antarctic Bottom Water, Sir?" Our seawater sommelier Pablo Trucco-Pignata hard at work in the lab #NightWatch

Time to meet another member of the group, Lieutenant Vanessa Bach Rodrigues, who has a unique role on board as an observer for the Brazilian Navy #WomenInSTEM UK in Brazil🇬🇧🇧🇷 Brazil Embassy UK

Ever wondered how our scientists filter microplastics out of the ocean to study them? This week NOC scientist Nina Faure Beaulieu has put together a video outlining this process. #microplastics #plasticpollution #oceanplastic #marinescience

Another blog post is up! Jean-Philippe from the carbon team describes the noises from the lab he wake up thinking about. Read all about it here: 24southatlantic.wordpress.com ORCHESTRA PROJECT RRS James Cook National Oceanography Centre

Station 100 complete! That makes it over 45 tonnes of water that has now been brought on deck for sampling, equivalent to over 80000 pints, or in weight, over 200,000 chocolate bunnies

When the call of "whales! whales!" across the lab is a bit of an anticlimax #laundryday

As well as the physics and chemistry going on, we also have biology experts among our party. Dr Chibo Chikwililwa from the University of Nambia explains her work investigating phytoplankton dynamics across the South Atlantic National Oceanography Centre #CommonwealthBigLunch

We're just making a detour to St. Helena, apparently they've run out of eggs

Incredible sunset from monkey island on the #RRSJamesCook. Only 12 days left on JC159 - 24S ! #vitaminsea

Yesterday's 11am internet and email delivery. When you're in the middle of the ocean and there are no cable sockets, you have to rely on other means

Critical decisions to be made in the #RRSJamesCook decorate an egg competition, Eggcellent entries! JC159 - 24S National Oceanography Centre #Easter

After a short port call in Walvis Bay today before heading for our last CTDs, it's time to meet Gadaffi Liswaniso from the University of Namibia, a microbiologist ensconced in the Physics team #CommonwealthBigLunch

24S is part of the UK's contribution to sustained hydrographic sections monitoring the global ocean/climate observing system. Cruises like ours are happening every month somewhere around the world National Oceanography Centre ORCHESTRA PROJECT @jcommops #oceanobservation #stationtostation

As we spin the ship to test the wind-recording instruments, there's time for a blogpost by Kat Giamalaki, a student from OceanEarthUniSoton National Oceanography Centre, on the intricacies and camaraderie around the CTD rosette 24southatlantic.wordpress.com

The outside (inside) broadcast studio is all set up and ready for the live link up to the #ourcommonwealth event being held in Southampton

JC159 - 24S From the other side

Live call with the #RRSJamesCook which is currently off the coast of Namibia, in this snippet our Dr Brian King outlines the current expedition aim and preliminary findings | Follow JC159 - 24S for more updates from the ship

Live to the UK from the South Atlantic. A great conversation as part of the #ourCommonwealth ocean event, featuring JC159 PSO Brian King, ship's Master John Leask, and OceanEarthUniSoton's Nina Faure Beaulieu speaking about heat and carbon uptake, ship systems and microplastics

So this was us. 125 ctd stations, 57 tonnes of subsurface water, 6 floats, thousands upon thousands of samples analysed on board and for back home, lifetime friendships made, and a new insight into the ocean's ability to absorb heat and carbon youtu.be/DSj1NOQMqmk

There once was a ship called James Cook, To the Southern Atlantic she was took, To measure carbon and heat  And the ocean's heartbeat  In ten years we hope to take another look. An infinitely better use of rhyme by Dr Alejandra Sanchez-Franks is now up on the blog 24southatlantic.wordpress.com