Hello All
Sorry for the late report today, we were busy discharging and loading some cargo.
To our benefit a very large section of ice shelf, which we rated unworkable yesterday, broke away from the shelf just south of the ramp area. This left a nice clean and low ice face, which after inspection was also found crack free leading inshore. Even though we were still getting a 2 meter lift along the shelf conditions seemed to have improved from yesterday and will hopefully continue to improve.
The conditions when we started off today was not all that good to try and fit a 24 ton tanktainer on a sled with container pods with the tanktainer swinging around and the sled stationary on the shelf. We decided eventually to decant some of the tanktainers to bring it to a weight of 25 ton when adding the weight of the sled. In that way we were able to swing the sled onboard and place the tank on the sled and swing them across as a unit.
3 Tanktainers went off that way after which we were able to backload four sleds filled with cargo, which we are now discharging into the cargo holds.
Tonight we will discharge the sled to the ice shelf again and hopefully by tomorrow morning the swell have died down even more to discharge the remainder of the tanks....hold thumbs.
Have a good start to the week.
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