In stark contrast to Sean Connery’s “one ping only” in Hunt for Red October, we’ve pinged about 150,000 times and have calculated that we will ping around 302,400 times in total. Now that I’ve mentioned it I can’t seem to tune it out once again. Should be a great night’s rest ????. We are nearing the halfway point of the cruise and it’s starting to get to the point in the cruise where people are getting bored. Luckily, I’ve managed to procrastinate all of my work for the second half of the cruise. My plan is to map each system from transducer/radar/gps to computer to display so that I can better visualize the big picture of the tech-managed equipment onboard. After I have that, I want to examine and draw in how the systems interface with one another so that our displays show large varieties of data from different sources. I think this will be useful to build intuition as a tech e.g. if we stop receiving air temperature data I’ll know exactly where to go to start troubleshooting.