06/18/2024:
- New rules for winch booth: one person at a time, max 1-hour stay.
- Minor issues adjusting winch during deployment rotation.
06/19/2024:
- Deployed corer at 6 am after prep with Joe at 5 am.
- Assisted with taglines and bottle replacement, each deployment takes 4 hours.
- Noticed winch operator error during shift change.
- Experienced sudden vision changes; eyesight issues noted.
06/20/2024:
- general deployment day.
06/21/2024:
- transit to next station
06/22/2024:
- Day spent seasick, rested in theater room and cabin.
- Tested negative for COVID after some of the crews positive results.
06/23/2024:
- Reapplied patch, feeling better.
- Five onboard tested positive for COVID.
- Anticipated arrival at station tomorrow morning.
06/24/2024:
- Winch line on first cast was angled significantly, had to call all stop and work with the captain to get the boat to drift with the current
- last cast yielded only one usable sample.
06/25/2024:
- First cast nearing completion by 9:30 am.
- Helped Arron on the fly bridge with setting up some stuff for an O2 sensor.
- Switched from hour long shift rotations to half hour.
06/26/2024:
- Took off weight from the corer and crew added wood blocks on the bottom so that the tubes wouldn’t sink so low into the mud.
IN CONCLUSION:
A bit more downtime this week, but I am beginning to feel settled down with living and working on a boat. Im honestly shocked that it’s only been a little over two weeks. The most notable event this week is that we were able to get 5 (out of 8) good samples on one of the casts. Which is way better then usual! We also changed our shift rotations to 30mins instead of an hour. That was no one has to hold the winch joystick for a whole hour.
