Saturday, May 28, 2011

delayed momentarily, but heading to sea soon

we performed a compass calibration today ("spinning the compass"). as
we left dock, the engineers determined there was a problem with the
generator being used to power the z-drives. the ship uses generators
to make electricity to run the electric motor driven propellers. we
went back to dock to fix this problem, and we will be leaving soon.

we just had our safety meeting (safety first) in the main lab. the
science party is really small (six), so it was a short meeting. the
science crew was about 36 for the sumatra cruise, so there will be
plenty of personal space on this cruise.

right now, it is time for lunch.

No comments: