Well, we have been sitting for a couple days with REALLY BIG swells and honestly it sometimes feels like I've been out here for hours rather than days! I think of these swells as really big because they are rocking the boat a LOT more than they have in the calm days we had when we first got here - I'm sure that REALLY BIG waves make these look really small, but everything is about perspective so we're HANGING OUT IN BIG SWELL. Now there's been quite a bit of stumbling around on my part and some days it just feels like I'm a toddler stumbling around confused by gravity - for example, I'll be on deck talking to some of the Maersk crew and as the swell lifts the boat I'll end up "falling" a few steps in the direction the boat is tilting only to return to my original place as the boat rocks back. The offshore crew, of course, stay in the same location through all of these exchanges, which leaves me to be moderately flustered (to really flustered if I've really miscalculated the size of the swell), but at any rate, I laugh at least as much as I stumble around the boat. XD Something that is dramatically IMPROVED by having significant swell is movies that feature boats and/or space ships! I hosted a movie night with Star Wars Episode 4 and WOW IT IS INTENSE WHEN THE SHIP YOU ARE ON IS SHAKING WITH THE SPACE SHIPS IN BATTLE!!! Who needs 3D movies when I can just watch them offshore??? We're looking at a nice weather window for the next couple days so I'm hoping for a mellow spell and am crossing my fingers for another day off soon!
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AuthorBree Gibbs, here. I'm a recent Master's Grad just trying to share what it's like to be a trash scientist (for those who aren't in the know, I'm a marine biologist). Categories
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