Process of Pouring Water on a Boat

believe it or not, pouring water into a smaller container on a boat can be difficult, so here is my published procedure of pouring water. 1) Leave the open container leaning on the size of the container you want to pour into. 2) Gently let the rock of the boat pour the water for you 3) If the boat rock rocks the other way DO NOT GET AGGRESSIVE and tip the bottle, or you WILL drench your work station! 4) Not having patience blows, so you better find them somewhere!!

In the past couple of days, glass has not been my friend! So the small amber CDOM bottles cannot be put in the -80 freezer, because they will shatter! oops The test tubes we had transported here did not have a friendly flight, so they will shatter when trying to put a cap on, oops. And finally (sorry Elin!) one of our very nice, very expensive cuvettes did not like the rock of the boat, so the top is a little....missing. I think it would still be able to be used in the fluorometer, but as of now we are using the non-shattered one (yes we are a very smart bunch).

We just had two days off in our transit picking up Joaquim and returning to the dome, so I caught up on my sleep and am ready to spend the 12 - 13 hours after we start are transect (approximately at 22:00 tonight) filtering water. We just found the spectrophotometer, so we can also run more samples than we thought on this cruise. Needless to say, buh bye free time!!! This is good though, being on a boat with nothing to do is brutal!!! I think I'll go take a nap now....rough life!

I went fishing last night and caught 8 squid! They inked on me, but then we cut them open so we were pretty even. Also, I guess I'll be nocturnal during this trip, because sleeping from 7 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon feels amazing with the 2:00 AM water sampling. I'm starting to get into a rhythm which is going well, but I'll be interested to see how things will change once Joaquim (my boss) gets here.

We are officially at sea! Apparently our group is running samples from 2 - 6 AM, so I'm really happy I packed a bunch of those mini energy drinks. We don't start sampling until midnight on tomorrow, so we have the whole day to ourselves, in which I'm hoping we can get some sample water and practice. Also, I'll get some of the pictures up tomorrow, because I want to sleep right now...buh bye!

So the internet is brutal on the ship, and I'm on a special computer to write this. I won't have the internet access that I thought I would have, so we'll see if that changes over the course of the cruise. I'm on the ship, set up my equipment, and taught some people how to speak Keebler, so I'm well on my way to making this official! We don't leave port until Tuesday, so I may have some free time to get the last bits of alcohol in my bloodstream for the next 5 weeks...Once the computer's system is up and running, I'll have pictures!! The sights are amazing here, so you're just gonna have to wait to see amazing coastlines and really cool equipment (probably only cool if you're a geologist...) Ok, I need to go catch up to my studies now...bye!

So this trip started off with a bang because the first American song I heard as the plane was taking off was Tik Tok...So the fact that it was pouring when we got off the plane and the fact that our taxi driver almost killed us on the way to our hotel doesn't matter! Apparently our ship is already loaded up, so the next two days will be just hanging out in Costa Rica, getting in my last drops of alcohol, and and trying not to get bitten by a malaria filled mosquito....that is all