Cruise Diary
The cruise diary provides you with the latest news and stories from our colleagues on board RV Pelagia. The contributions may be either in Dutch or in English, depending on the author.
The cruise diary provides you with the latest news and stories from our colleagues on board RV Pelagia. The contributions may be either in Dutch or in English, depending on the author.
At about 3 o'clock this afternoon, everybody was requested to be on the foredeck for a group photo.
Finally, the sun showed up on the 7th day of the cruise. The day started at a first station near the island of Terschelling, where we were able to get mobile phone signal.
The weather has being playing with our feelings. The 5:00 am shift woke up to a blizzard (snow, -1ºC, and force 8-9 winds), but a couple of hours later we were able to witness the first sunrise and bits of blue sky since the first day of measurements.
So far so good. Sampling the East Anglia plume has never been so pleasant…despite the rough sea and the cold wind.
Today no catastrophes as fridges falling open, but unfortunately the sensors on our outboard pipe are failing. Quite a pity, because now we're missing interesting data on the speed of the current...
Unfortunately in the afternoon waves started getting higher and shaking our ship in such a way Secchi disk measurements got quite complicated: one moment your disk is two meter below water, and immediately after your disk is flying in the air or hiding below the ship.
What is to say about a cruise day that only starts with embarking on 15.00 PM local time (14.00 UTC) and consists mostly of cruising to the first point of interest?