It has been 18 days since I began living on the R/V Atlantis. We are now off the coast of Guatemala. It is hot and humid outside making the shipping containers on board ovens and hard to work out of.
Since my last post we have put in a lot of work into the Bio Analytical Lab on board. It was filled to the ceiling with boxes and containers with a small walkway. We cleared it out and sanded down the walls. I painted and then worked on the floors. Next was building workbenches and finally today we assembled tons of chairs. There is still tons of work to do in that lab, along with all the others, but a lot of progress has been made. We have also installed some science fridges in the Bio lab and Hydro lab.
Now we are in warmer waters it is common to see dolphins and tons of flying fish. Captain has tried to go fishing and he caught a tuna, but a shark got to it before he did. We even saw a Mahi Mahi and Capt tried to get him but no luck. There has also been lots of bioluminescent plankton in the waves of the ship at night which has been beautiful to just stand there and watch.
Not much else has happened in the past few days, we are all working towards getting everything set up. We are also getting ready to pass through the Panama Canal which is still scheduled for August 3rd.
Until next time
Oil from building benches
Fellow Interns, Bella and Cherisse building the bench