Saturday, October 10, 2009

Crew Journal, Deck Department

Posted by POLAR SEA
We currently have been conducting a lot of dive ops, crane ops, and helicopter ops. Almost daily, we have flight quarters to send out the helos to track the polar bears that have been tagged by the scientists. So far we have found 3 of them. We have come across a few more bears in transiting to other locations where the targeted polar bears are located. The other day we passed a polar bear about 300 yards away from our port beam. Just last night on lookout, a lookout spotted a bear that was almost hit by our ship while going through some ice. Luckily the bear was not harmed. Some of the other scientists are still conducting core samples when we do dive operations. We also have a couple people from National Geographic along for the trip.
The deck force watch schedule has changed slightly due to the fact that we have gotten back 5 of our deckies from mess cooking. So now we have 5 unqualified deckies that have to get qualified so our watch rotation gets back to normal.
Today is October 7; all of the deck force on the Polar Sea except for one person is qualified underway. Go Deck Force. Our watch rotation is now at a 1 and 8. We so far have been successful in tracking polar bears.
Today is the 8th of October; we just saw a momma polar bear and two cubs off our starboard bow about 300 yds out. It was really cool to see these polar bears in the wild and seeing them just do their thing. It made this trip really worth being on. Not too many people will experience what this boat is experiencing. To see these animals in their natural habitat and not behind some cage is truly a great sight.
~SN Avey
at 3:23 PM

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