Hello All
We are having a "SWELL!" time.
Yesterday we finished the filling of the tanks onboard, while running standby off the shelf, but when we made an attempt to place them back onto the shelf the swell conditions was found even worse than earlier when we loaded the tanks.
After a couple of attempts with the load swinging violently at the end of the crane it was decided to seize operations and find a better position or wait for conditions to improve.
We are thinking that the culprit causing the swell is the deep depression hanging over the middle of the Weddell sea. This NW'ly swell is then deflected into the bay of North point and North East point and it seems to deflect off the ice shelf again causing a rather confused sea in the bay. We are estimating about 2 meters swell against the shelf at times.
This morning we tested the shelf at North Point thinking that in the little natural bay there it might be better, luckily it wasn't since after lunch we observed a very large section of North East Point had broken away from the shelf and has collided with north point. It seems like the swell is causing havoc in the bay.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
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