• Question: how long would you be away for on one trip?

    Asked by to James on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      James Bell answered on 23 Jun 2014:


      Most research cruises are somewhere between 3 to 8 weeks for deep-sea biologists. Very occasionally they’ll be a bit shorter.

      Depends on the kind of field work you do, if you want to look at a place regularly over a long period of time you might be away for 6 months or even a year!

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