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Important Email Notice
Sunday, March 13, 9 PM
I should be able to get on the internet tomorrow. Most importantly, I'm not sure how much longer I can access the ship email. So if you want to send me any email from now on, please copy it to my gmail account, or it might get lost in cyberspace forever. Thanks!
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Land!
Sunday, March 13, 4 PM
Things are slowing down on the boat. Turned out there wasn't a ping editing party this morning since most people finished their edits beforehand, so when I woke up we had stopped collecting data and land was in sight.
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Ping Party
Saturday, March 12, 10 PM
Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day. Once we reach the continental shelf we finish collecting data. And then once the ping files are ready we'll have a giant ping editing party so that Marcel and Chris can finish processing all the data before we dock. Rumor has it we'll be able to see land pretty soon, too. :)
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subject: More Iceberg Excitement
6:00 PM, Friday, April 4Last night we had an iceberg that didn't show up on the radar. I was asleep already, but apparently it was about 100 feet long and we came very close to it without noticing. The rest of the night we slowed down to watch for more icebergs. The Palmer may be an icebreaker, but it probably wouldn't fare so well against an ( Read more... ) -
Iceberg!
8:30 PM, Thursday, April 3Yesterday we saw an iceberg! I would be excited about seeing an iceberg any day, but I was especially excited after being on this ship for 14 days with nothing out the window except for ocean. No one expected to see any icebergs because winter is just starting and we're not that far south (just ~50 degrees), so this was ( Read more... ) -
The Wave
9:22 AM, Monday, March 24Last night was pretty rough weather, and no one I spoke to had a good night's sleep. There's just something about being thrown against the headboard and then the footboard of your bed that makes sleeping difficult. But, again, the experienced people say it's nothing. The ship's maximum roll last night was about 19 ( Read more... )
