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32 - Trawling for a mooring

Hi Everyone, I was lucky today, because almost all of the transit time from M3 to M2 took place while I was asleep and then I woke up in...

31 - Edge of the ice

Hi Everyone, Today was a really fun day, if not very successful. We are trying to make our way towards our two southern moorings in the...

30 - Approaching the ice

Hi Everyone, Today was the second day of our move towards the M3 mooring and the ice today was getting more frequent. It was still just...

29 - The Thing!

Hi Everyone, I hope you’re doing well, thanks to everyone who has been sending me messages of support and asking after me. The messages...

28 - It's all falling apart

Hi Everyone, Today didn’t go entirely as planned. Our plan for the day was to finish the A23 section and then move south, with Chris...

26 - Food of dreams

Hi Everyone, Today was very chill. We worked through a few CTDs and I have been enjoying my new audiobook (“The Precipice” by Toby Ord,...

25 - The Argo sets sail

Hi Everyone, I hope you are well. The days are starting to blur together and get a bit samey with roughly the same setup of CTD and...

24 - A Day of Extremes

Hi Everyone, Today was the day we stopped running away from the storm and reached our furthest point south. I was very excited about the...

23 - The Quiz

Hi Everyone, As implied by the title, the highlight of the day was a mega-quiz for everyone onboard. More on that later. Thanks to the 24...

22 - The end of science

Hi Everyone, Apologies for the somewhat melodramatic title, the science and everyone are ok. Today was the day that we ceased working on...

21 - I've got time

Hi Everyone, Today we truly got into the rhythm of the A23 section, with two CTDs and a full set of salinometry during my shift. It was...

20 - CTD after CTD

Hi Everyone, It is nice to say that we have finally started the proper physical oceanography part of the cruise, and celebrated this with...

19 - A day of changes

Hi Everyone, Today was a strange day. The headline of the day would have to be that we are no longer going to KEP (King Edward Point),...

18 - Stromness Bay

Hi Everyone, Today was a very exciting day. The previous night there had been rumours that we might leave Rosita Bay via Salisbury plain,...

17 - Rosita Bay

Hi Everyone, Sorry for the long delay between blog posts, I will confess to writing this one a little late. It has been a very busy and...

15 - Virtual Work

Hi Everyone, A rather quiet day today, no physical oceanographic work was planned so that the biologists could get time to fish, and it...

12 - The seasick oceanographers

Hi Everyone, I hope you are all doing well and are enjoying the holidays. The waves have been picking up today which has been a bit of a...

11 - I Do Believe in Penguins!

Hi Everyone, Today was a very hectic day. When I woke up (quite late, as the late night and rolling boat had taken its toll on my sleep)...

10 - The world’s worst rollercoaster

Hi Everyone, We are really starting to get into the meat of the cruise now as we arrived at the P3 mooring today. This is the first...

9 - The Real Work Begins

Hi Everyone, I hope you are doing really well. We are finally getting into the area where real work can begin which is very exciting. We...

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