SA Agulhas II

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Day 51 : 28 January 2011

Hello All

Yesterday afternoon we were engaged in transferring Jet fuel from our storage tanks to the tanktainers on deck. It took a bit longer than expected but we finally finished shortly before supper.

We dipped our daily CTD after supper amongst many pieces of ice, icebergs, bergy bits and growlers, with the wind strongly from the SW. All the ice debris that has been building up against the ice shelf is now being blown out into the bay.

This morning we assessed the conditions against the shelf before breakfast and found it to be not great, but workable. The AWI personnel were informed and they made their way down to the shelf edge.

We then discharged all 3 tanks to them, but were delayed for a short while waiting on a couple of Emperors passing by, see image :-)

Have a good start to the weekend.

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