As you will notice, all of the pictures for today were taken from inside the ship. There is a reason behind this. Our work was cut short because of a storm which came in. Due to the waves and wind, we battened down the hatches in the galley, and the captain declared that “heavy weather procedures” were in effect, meaning that no one could go outside without receiving approval from the bridge. Bringing in the dredge today was exciting due to the pitching and rolling of the ship, and the normally ineffective taglines were required to prevent the dredge from violently swinging when the winch lifted it out of the water. Watch video ...

All this said, the weather was a more exciting than anything else (such as dangerous) and for the first time on the entire cruise, we felt the ship move in a direction not dictated by us. To pass some of the time, we watched “The Perfect Storm”, to feel perhaps that we were in more adventurous weather than we were actually in. We did have solid 10ft swells though, some of which sprayed up onto the lounge windows, located on the 01 deck of the ship, which is a level above the galley.

In the dredge that we did bring up however, we only got four small rocks. Four is vastly nothing at all, and we were glad to discover a few small rocks in the dredge bag which had at first appeared to be empty. We have also been working to bring real-time ship data to the website. Soon, we hope to be able to display the position and conditions of the ship live, on the website. This will include position, wind, speed and heading, so that website visitors will be able to have the experience of the ship as best as possible, while remaining comfortably at home.

Ryan Delaney onboard the R/V Kilo Moana.