Hi All, I received this email from Michael today saying he started his trip. I've included an image of the ship tracker showing where he's been so far. Looks like they're still pretty close to the coast of Chile, but soon they'll be out in the Drake Passage proper.
"Hey there. We got underway today without much fanfare. We've got the first 24hrs or so to get all of our testing techniques down pat. Today Mark and I with the help of Sonja trouble shot all of the problems we've been encountering with the O2 titration system. We think that one either the reagent, or the titrant are mix it a slightly wrong proportion. Colm made up a second titrant solution tonight maybe we'll see what that does for us tomorrow. It looks like I'll be taking the later shift opposed to Mark on the O2 system hopefully we can get some of the transit group to help us out and make the load not so bad.
It has been fun work so far and that's especially appreciated because they have been long hours (~18) a day. Apparently on of Sonja's hobbies is to make neck warmers and she let us go through and pick one out. I had a tough decision, but I ultimately ended up with a bumble bee and honey comb pattern. I'll see if I can get some pictures tomorrow of the land in the distance. I don't think we'll be out of the straits before 5 ET tomorrow (9/17) and at that we might linger a bit to let some 35ft seas pass us by. Even at that there are supposed to be storms every 3 days or so. In the passage the seas are not bad for a ship this size. I'd say they are equivalent to the roughest weather i saw during the EC coming around Cape Ramano off of San Marco Island."
And then from 3PM ET today:
"I'm off to sleep now. try to be ready for the first night of sampling. We've still had trouble with the o2 system, but it's mostly the equipment we've determined, so we'll just have to keep consistent our selves."
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