30/05/2026
When crossing the Bay of Biscay its crazy how many fishing boats you can see on the horizon and even more on the AIS screen. Very often, they fish at the same spot where the most fish are trying to hide over the deep water canyons.
The continental shelf of the Bay of Biscay is an underwater landmass varying wildly in width, stretching up to 160 km offshore on the French side but narrowing to less than 10 km in the south off Spain. Its abrupt drop-off causes violent swells that make the region notoriously rough for mariners.
When we passed the continental shelf in Mai 2026 the seas were calm and Neptune was good with us.
Unfortunately with our low professional fishing gear for 20 bucks we were not succesfull, maybe because we were sailing too fast to make those plastic fish and metal hooks sink low enough.
Screenshot pictures showing bathyvision from TIMEZERO iBoat on iPad.