And so we're on our way to the Science Site, as it's being referred to. It's going to take about 2 days of steaming to get there. For the landlubbers amongst you that means that we're just sailing at about 12 knots, no stopping for science, no stopping for a quick swim or to get some milk from the shops. We're just heading almost due south for the time being.
The cool thing about this ship is that we can scan the sea floor as we go. So even at the speeds we're going we can get some pretty cool data about what's going on down below. As it turns out there's zip going on down below. It's flat, and flat and more flat.
The cool thing about this ship is that we can scan the sea floor as we go. So even at the speeds we're going we can get some pretty cool data about what's going on down below. As it turns out there's zip going on down below. It's flat, and flat and more flat.
But just because we're not officially at the science site yet doesn't mean it's all milk and cookies and swapping salty sea shanties. Ship life is a 24 hour venture, there's always work to be done, people sleeping and people looking for something to do.
Because Schmidt Ocean Institute is awesome and understands the value of Science Communication they've sent a full time blogger and scicomm fellow on board (no not me, I wish!). That's the kind of work that happens all day every day too.
Here we have a very important photo in progress, the Captain taking a photo of our Chief Scientist looking all sciency in the control room. To be fair we were actually doing science at the time, and no one put on a lab coat which is always a relief, remember, science DOES NOT = lab coat.
Because Schmidt Ocean Institute is awesome and understands the value of Science Communication they've sent a full time blogger and scicomm fellow on board (no not me, I wish!). That's the kind of work that happens all day every day too.
Here we have a very important photo in progress, the Captain taking a photo of our Chief Scientist looking all sciency in the control room. To be fair we were actually doing science at the time, and no one put on a lab coat which is always a relief, remember, science DOES NOT = lab coat.
There was plenty of collaboration regarding this particular photo, which is actually great to see. It shows that the crew is not only supportive of the science but also supportive of the communication aspect too. And that support is always going to improve a voyage.
And that is it for the time being. We've been going well, no technical issues, all the science minions have been learning the new systems incredibly fast and we're now just excited to get to the canyon and see what we're going to see in the deep blue sea.