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Saturday, July 20, 2019

Our first proper sunset! / Getting to know: Update

After a few rougher days of weather, the sun finally came out!
/ Victoire and Sam finish their mission!

By Sam Mitchell

Sunrise? Sunset? Who can tell?!

We're about a week into the expedition now, and yet we hadn't really seen a nice sunset... until today! We just about got the timing right - a few rough days and big swells had prevented some of us from venturing up on deck. However, today graced us with a nice, calm, crisp evening with few clouds and a good view of the setting sun. So, a few members of our evening crew headed up towards the bow of the ship to enjoy some well-deserved fresh air in the middle of the ocean! We hope to see many more!
Adrien, Massimo, Axelle and PSO Lluiva enjoy some time in the sun

In other news....

Victoire and Sam finished their mission to collect pictures of everyone on board for the final ship roster! Now we can get to learning everyone's names and positions quickly. The last few were a struggle for us to find (hiding in parts of the ship we didn't even know existed!), so one of the on-board science officers helped us source our final faces. We could just learn people's names the normal way.... by asking them... but this gave us a fun challenge and goal which - with a little help - we finally pulled off!
Our masterpiece!



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