Finally the weather started to act like Antarctica, I can no longer go outside on the deck for a smoke with a T-shirt, equipment started to freeze, the CTD rosette froze over and they had to wait and do some maintenance on it before redeploying it.

Speaking of cigarettes, I  underestimated my cigarette consumption, I thought I would stay on the usual two day a pack but due to my cabin mate smoking and my own higher rate I ended up using two packs per three days, which is not good since I have only twenty packs with me. I have to ask around to see if they sell cigarettes onboard.

After two days of rest we are approaching our next set of stations, we have to cut some copper tubes and straighten them for the sampling which I believe is the most tedious part of our job, quite boring but it has to be done. It takes about two-three hours to go through a copper roll which supposed to give us around twenty sampling tubes sometimes we get less. We need around eighty tubes for the coming stations.

By the way Brice took so many pictures of their seal tagging adventure, I  am sure he will post a blog with lots of good pictures, last night in the lounge we went through some of the movies they took, it looked fun.

Will keep you guys updated

Arash