Steaming

Well today is a day of cruising to another sight. We are going to recover
some oceanographic moorings (instruments deployed in the ocean). However
we've had to smash through a lot of ice and go quite aways south. This did
mean that we could look at some of the data and catch up on entering notes,
and on sleep.
I was caught up on most of my processing/data but still had a bit to do.
Today we saw something like 3 polar bears from the ship and 7 seals.
We also saw a large rock on some ice (I think it was glacial ice and some
rock from a cliff or something. A few scientists got to go off the boat to
the ice to collect pieces of the rock. Also since the helicopter pilot was
the first to really notice it, he got to go too. I asked him to bring me
back a piece. So mom, you will have a piece of rock from both the bottom of
the ocean and unbelievably a rock that was floating around on a piece of ice
in the ocean, no just going to the beach in Longyearbyen (though I may still
grab you rocks from there too).

Well I don't have a lot to report.

Justin