Tuesday, June 17 — La Baie, Québec

Science 17.06.2025

The day ends near the town of La Baie. As the sailboat glides slowly along the shoreline, a quiet companion works below the surface: the bathymetric probe. Deployed at first light, it follows every curve of the fjord at low speed, tirelessly recording the contours of the seafloor.

Invisible and silent, it goes about its work — yet every bit of data it collects helps unveil the hidden story of the Saguenay.

It continuously maps the fjord’s lateral slopes — a patient, almost imperceptible task, but one that’s vital to the mission.

Along the way, we stop for CTD casts, acoustic surveys, and nanoplancton sampling. Today, we passed the two-thirds mark of the southern shoreline. Bit by bit, the underwater geography of the Saguenay is coming into view.