Hello All
And there we go...the last day of the year. What a year it was, with us hosting the world cup and DEA starting the construction of their new Antarctic Supply and Research Vessel. The future is exciting and I wish you all the best and success for 2011.
We completed our passenger flights yesterday afternoon and maintained a running standby off Penguin Bukta. This morning early we hoped that the swell would have been blown down enough for us to place the bow onto the shelf and start with the fuel pumping, but it was not to be our lucky day. We tried various positions against the shelf but ended up ramming the ice shelf due to a 1.5 meter swell.
It is times like this that you wish that there is more sea ice around since it takes away the swell, but we are open to all the forces of the ocean with most of the sea ice to the north of us already melted. We will try again next year...:-) (tomorrow).
Enjoy the last bit of 2010 and good luck with 2011.
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