Hello All
We were convinced that mother nature would give us a break today with the swell and allow us to complete our cargo work, but it was a no go.
It is a stunning day out here in the bay with hardly any wind and clear skies with the sun shining sharply of the ice shelf. We tried all the areas along the western side of Akta Bay, but did not find a suitable area. The ship would be relatively stable on a low section of shelf deeper down in the bay, but then the shelf would have dangerous cracks running in from the ice edge would could break away at any time.
The section that we were working on 2 days ago has completely broken away, is drifting in the bay and is now no longer known as ice shelf, but rather as iceberg.
There is maybe some glimmer of hope on the horizon with the Neumayer forecasters predicting that the swell will ease of during the course of the day and tomorrow, but keeping an eye on the weather forecast we seem to be in for a strong easterly wind by the end of tomorrow which will provide challenges of its own.
In the eight years that the ice pilot has come down to the shelf he has not seen the swell this bad in the bay and the great big sections of shelf that is breaking away bears testimony to that.
We are hopeful though and have enough time left, so lets see what happens.
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