Cruise Cruise Baby! Doo dododo doodoo dodo.

Some very talented peeps over at the Coastal Ocean Observing Center at the University of New Hampshire have put together a remarkably thorough and clever spoof of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” all about trolling for plankton and other fun things oceanographers do. It’s called ”Cruise Cruise Baby.”

All the footage and inspiration comes from a series of 12 hour monthly research cruises conducted around the Gulf of Maine over the past several years.

It makes for GREAT Friday afternoon doldrum watching. Here are some of research associate Chris Manning‘s inspired lyrics:

“To the extreme the damn boat is rolling
Put it in gear let’s go plankton trolling…
....

Motion sickness problems?
Yo we’ll solve them.
Throw up your snacks
Let the ocean dissolve them

cruise cruise baby - doo dodododooodododo
cruise cruise baby - doo dodododooodododo”

Here are the full lyrics.

And here’s me signing off wishing everyone a great weekend with a quote from my new favorite mid-nineties science rap spoof: “Word to your photons.”

(Thanks Judy and Isla!)