We are at the end of the 6 week of the this cruise and the end as whole is just around the corner. It has certainly been an eventful week. On our transit to the final station we recieved a distress signal from a vessel with a broken mast and running low on fuel. The Marcus G. Langseth was the closest ship to the distressed party and made the easy decision of changing course in order to provide assistance. After back tracking for several hours we were able to spot the small sailing vessel nested in a thick fog. The ship’s crew wasted no time in preparting to assist. They loaded up one of our small boats with fuel cans and a small party of three to meet the ship approximately a mile away from us. It is quite a process to deploy the boat and all were in attendance at the spectacle. Luckily there were no issues and the distressed vessel was able to make its way home safe.
With our own small boat and its party secured again we made for our heading towards the Arctic Circle. We passed right by Iceland on this transit and quite possibly may have seen it if the continuous fog didn’t follow us. As we passed the Arctic Circle we have truly come into a place of eternal daytime. Unfortunatley we have not been able to utilize this extra light to our advantage as we have suspened operations for several days due to the weather. Once it clears we will finish up our final station and make our way to Reykjavic for a well needed sight of land.
