Thy Mya is a little ship designed for research in the wadden sea. It is a catamaran and the shape of the hull also allows the continuation of the experiments in the wadden sea at low tide. The ship can stand on the sediment until the next high tide allows the continuation of the cruise. During a biological seminar on island Sylt we made a short excursion with the Mya to catch fish and other inhabitant of the wadden sea. Click on thumbnails to see the pictures in full size.

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Mya cruise 1993
This is the Mya in the harbor of List on island Sylt, Germany.
Mya cruise 1993
Again, on every schoolar excursion the famous historic Nansen-Schöpfer has to be shown. (see also the explanations of them in the gallery of the Heinke 92 cruise.)
Mya cruise 1993
The fish iform the net and the other inhabitant of the wadden sea where stored in the box. Dr. Reise explained the diffenent animals living in the wadden sea later.
Mya cruise 1993
The deeper investigation of some of the caught ainmals.
Mya cruise 1993
This is the part of the wadden sea where we made our experients. During this excursion we had to find out, if the composition of the macrofauna change in one week, when the number of heart mussels increase dramatically. In the foreground the testfields with and without the mussels can be seen.
Mya cruise 1993
A closer look to our heart mussels field.

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