We're now at the primary station on my "Final Cruise Mark Deux". As this is a water chemistry cruise, there isn't all that much for me to do now that the email accounts have been set up and the scientists are all plugged in. We'll be on station for another ...
The computer tech I was training decided he missed his puppy dog or something and just walked off the ship this morning, 2 days before they (or should I say we) were scheduled to sail. It's only a 5 day trip doing CTD work, which means easy work for the ...
We're almost to Honolulu, and 12 hours away from the end of my last cruise with this STS.
I've been pretty productive this cruise. Most of the time has been spent doing a huge brain dump into the group's Operations Manual, since they have a whole crop of new techs that ...
We're now officially on the correct side of both the equator and the dateline. I missed the momentus occurance by being on ye olde interwebbe instead of on deck with a beer. Whaa.
Our bosun just caught a 25 pound yellowtail, so we should have fresh fish tomorrow for dinner.
I'm out at sea on my last trip sailing for Scripps. I'm training a new computer tech this cruise - hope he likes it. We're sailing from Fiji to Honolulu, then I'm out of here. The weather started out pretty rough, but it's significantly better today.
Today is groundhog day, as ...
One more day and a wakeup to Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Weather's been nice during this short hop between Tahiti and Tonga. As we are sailing in Exclusive Economic Zones the entire way, we are not allowed to collect data. Thus this trip is mostly housekeeping.
I'm planning on grabbing some pictures tomorrow ...
We left Papeete yesterday at 1600 local on our way to Nuku'alofa, Tonga.
I'm about $11,000,000 poorer after 5 days in Papeete, the land of $10 beers and $60 flipflops. I can officially report that the city of Papeete is a hole, and the only thing that ...
Found this beauty courtesy of someone on 2nd Mate HookaJoe's website.
Yep, it's been one of those port stops. Six weeks at sea makes you want to soak up drink like a sponge, and by god I've done my part.
Working my ass off too - we have the WHOI Jason team ...
Below is the final underway cruise report from the co-chief scientists on this cruise. It offers a summary of what we were looking for and what we found.
The R/V Melville returns to Papeete on Monday March 21, after a successful site survey for an IODP drilling program. The ...
We finished the last core in relatively shallow water - 1500 meters. It was basically full of shells and sand instead of mud, which was a marked departure from most of the other cores.
In other news, it's been a banner week for satellite-related issues out here. Twice we had problems ...
