Hello All
Happy, Happy New Year. May you dreams and aspirations become a reality this year.
Yesterday afternoon we placed the bow of the vessel up against the shelf again to assess the condition and the effect of the swell, but found it to be too extensive still and decided to wait until this morning.
We had the bow up against the shelf early and decided that we will attempt to pump the fuel even though there was still a constant half a meter swell with a meter to 1.5 meter sets coming through at times causing the vessel to ram hard against the shelf. We ran the hoses ashore and pressure tested them, but they discovered some air leaks which had to be repaired before we could start.
The vessel dug itself into the shelf deep enough to almost strike the bottom of the foremast after which we decided to move further down the shelf where a sort of out crop presented itself, which turned out to be better....for a while anyway. We had to extend the hoses somewhat and started with the pumping at 11:00 reaching a rate of around 36000L an hour.
With this rate we should be done with the first sortie by supper time tonight after which we are expected to leave on the buoy run once the SAWS personnel are back onboard.
Have a good first day of 2011.
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