Setting sail to the Coral Sea
![View from the back deck leaving the port of Cairns](https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/oceanvolcanoes/wp-content/uploads/sites/513/2019/08/P8060029.jpg)
At 0700 AEST we set sail on the RV Investigator for the start of our 28 day voyage in the Coral Sea hoping to sample some exciting rocks from the extinct underwater volcanoes of the Tasmantid chain.
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The bow of R/V Investigator in the port of Cairns before departure. Image: Jamie Menzies/University of Edinburgh
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View from the back deck leaving Cairns (and Australia!) behind. Image: Jamie Menzies/University of Edinburgh
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