{"id":3512,"date":"2016-08-11T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2016-08-11T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:43:17","slug":"r-v-weatherbird-log-chris-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/r-v-weatherbird-log-chris-bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"R\/V Weatherbird Log-Chris Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Chrishorizon-snyder.JPG\" alt=\"Chrishorizon-snyder.JPG\" width=\"3456\" height=\"4608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Bailey, fisherman extraordinaire and crew member of FIO&#8217;s <em>R\/V Weatherbird II<\/em>, has been fishing with C-IMAGE scientists since 2014, and an active crew-member aboard the vessel since 2011. Chris\u2019 role aboard the <em>Weatherbird II<\/em> during C-IMAGE research cruises is as the main fisherman, setting out and pulling in all of the fishing hooks.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Chris has set and pulled in almost 58,000 hooks!<\/p>\n<p>He says he enjoys his time fishing although acknowledges how strenuous the job can be. A set in the middle of the day means standing on the stern of the vessel for almost 4 hours in intense sun, often pulling up large, heavy fish and enduring intense seas.<\/p>\n<p>While not working, Chris enjoys spending time with his family in the Tampa Bay area. He has two boys, one of whom was born just last month!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for all of your hard work, we really appreciate you as a member of our science team. We couldn\u2019t do it without him. Thanks, Chris!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3508\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Bailey_0001_Layer-2.jpg\" alt=\"Chris1\" width=\"427\" height=\"415\" \/><figcaption>Chris has worked with the Mud &amp; Blood Expediton since 2011.<\/figcaption><figcaption><\/figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3509\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Bailey_0002_Layer-3.jpg\" alt=\"Chris2\" width=\"429\" height=\"469\" \/><figcaption>In 2015, several record-sized Yellowedge Grouper were caught in the northern Gulf of Mexico<\/figcaption><figcaption><\/figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3510\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Bailey_0003_Layer-4.jpg\" alt=\"Chris3\" width=\"636\" height=\"712\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3511\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Bailey_0000_Layer-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chris4\" width=\"646\" height=\"642\" \/><figcaption>A Shortfin Mako caught in the southern Gulf of Mexico, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bailey, fisherman extraordinaire and crew member of FIO&#8217;s R\/V Weatherbird II, has been fishing with C-IMAGE scientists since 2014, and an active crew-member aboard the vessel since 2011. Chris\u2019 role aboard the Weatherbird II during C-IMAGE research cruises is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-log","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}