Long Transit

Post written by Charlie:

Before I begin, I would like to bring to attention an error I made in the previous blog. The ISIS device I told you about is misspelled. It should be ISUS. Sorry for the mix up.

Now, the chronicling of my evening. The grand unfolding of a wondrous story. Now that I have your hopes up, allow me to dash them utterly. Nothing happened tonight. We were in transit for the entire night heading back to where we lost the optics machine. Keep in mind that we lost the optics south-west of Nunivak Island and at the beginning of this evening we were just southeast of St. Matthew Island. That's quite a distance, something close to 140 nautical miles, as the crow flies, and it took somewhere around nine or so hours to get there and even as I'm writing this, we're still an hour out. One of the krill people did get the ship to stop for a quick Bongo netting but we only fished up one krill. One krill. We can't work with just "one krill". We didn't even need to filter seawater for phytoplankton. Like I said, there was nothing to do this evening. Being the opportunistic man that I am, I took advantage of this lull in activity to do a much needed chore: laundry. It seems that I have build quite a collection of dirty clothing since the beginning of our cruise and it needed to be washed. Plus I was out of pants, so washing my clothes was very important and needed to be done in a rather timely manner. After the time spent with the washer and dryer I got a snack, caught up a little on my reading, got some speaking tips from Dr. Shull and then went to breakfast. Since I would like to make it to dinner tonight (we're having steamed crab legs), I need to get a decent amount of sleep today so as soon as I wrap this up, such as right now, I'll head on that way. Take it easy blog readers.