long days short nights, or the inverse, can't keep track

this message was also sent orig a few days ago...

i love being on a ship. the ocean is such a deep blue. we have been very
fortunate and the seas are not very rough. the ship rolls and pitches quite a
bit for others. there are 1/2 dozen indonesian scientists on board and i have
been letting one of them use my ginger caps. i have not needed them since my 1st
two days. yippee.

we are just ow pulling up another 2.5" dia gravity core, so we really hope we
find something. having destroyed some of the essential winch equipment after
only a cuple of days of coring, we can only do a few types of cores. we are
expecting to meet up with replacement gear in padang (west coat sumatra) in less
than a week. so... we are using what equip we can to get recon data adn then we
can come back on our return transit to sample at specific locations we determine
now.

adios (there are 1/2 dozen spanish on baord as well) jay (more later)