We had another delay in leaving North Carolina. Something went wrong with one of the engines so there were a couple more days of sitting around not doing much. Once it was finally fixed and we set sail, there was another delay. There was some thick fog so the ship had to slow down and blow it’s horn every. single. minute. for hours. The highlight of having nothing to do is that I finally convinced some of the other Electrical Technicians to play Uno. A decision they probably regret but I had fun.
We finally arrived in Woods Hole (just five days behind schedule but who’s counting)! Myself and some of the other techs are living in a house together. It felt weird to sleep there the first night; it was so quiet and nothing was moving. We also offloaded Alvin from the ship. It made me a nervous to watch a crane casually lift a 45,000 lb sub so high but everything went smoothly. The next few days will be spent continuing to offload the ship and setting up the shops to take the sub apart.
