Hello All
Sjoe, we were so lucky with the ice yesterday and had almost a full day of cargo off loading against the shelf ice on the North Point at Nuemayer.
We were almost forced to decide on whether or not to continue with work as a fog bank lingered about half a mile to seaward, but luckily it eventually dissipated. We continued with cargo work and discharged most of the heavy lifts and even backloaded some containers.
The vessel was eventually forced of her berth against the shelf by encroaching ice consisting of broken pieces of bay ice and multiyear ice mostly of 3m thickness. Luckily we had a nice escape route provided by the grounded icebergs to seaward of us.
We stayed in open water for the night, but could not regain our berth against the ice shelf this morning due to it being compacted by ice. We waited it out and did some more scientific work during this morning hoping that the wind will shift southerly to blow the sea ice out to sea.
We only need a 24 hour window to discharge the remainder of the cargo. Friday a storm is predicted for the area with 25-30 knots wind from the East, so hopefully we will get our break before then.
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