Day 41 : 18 January 2011

Hello All

We maintained our 6 CTD Casts a day for the last 24 hours, but had to zig-zag carefully and also move some of the proposed CTD cast positions to avoid running into iceberg, bergybits or growlers. Luckily we are experiencing mostly daylight conditions throughout with a couple of hours of dusk/dawn.

The Snow Petrel made its return and there are 2 to 3 permanently circling the ship with the odd Antarctic Petrel and Southern Giant Petrel in the mix.

We are now back in the Antarctic Circle and are getting closer again to human civilisation as we approach Akta Bay where Nuemayer Scientific Station is located. We only have another 276NM to run with 12 CTD's to complete.

Have a good afternoon.