Programs Blog

Saturday, 8 November 2025

Location: 18° 15.4’N x 064° 42.5’W and we anchored at noon

Ships heading: 170° Per ships Compass

Ships speed: 5.10 knots

Log: 3017 Nautical Miles

Weather: it was sunny with winds coming from ESE with a force 5 while we were at anchor.

Barely leaving St John en route to St. Croix

Today I was woken up quite nicely to pancakes for breakfast, and I started my watch feeling great. I was in lab for the morning, but since we were not really doing any more data collecting it was an easy day. Things got a little hectic when I was told that we were going to start cleaning out our bunks today and that was a little crazy for me because the goal was to empty our bunks as fast as possible and then clean them, but I could not put my stuff away in a crazy way because everything was packed carefully. It was a little stressful, but I got through it and now that I have repacked, it is safe to say that I no longer have to wear my foul weather gear on the plane, so I won’t be dying of heat any more than I already am.

Speaking of foul weather, my next and final watch is coming up and it’s a dawn watch so I am excited for it even though I have to be woken up at one in the morning and it’s supposed to rain, but I will not be wearing my foul weather gear because the rain will cool me off and the thing I want most right now is to cool off. The student steward, Claire, did an amazing job today. The food was great, and I liked that it was also steak for dinner and it was really good steak. Today, overall, it was a fun day, and I can’t wait to make it back home. This trip was an amazing one that everybody enjoyed in the end even though it was hard and there were a great number of challenging moments, but we all got through it and had a heck of a time throughout the whole thing. I would love to keep writing and telling more about our time at sea, but that would leave few stories for everyone to tell when we get back and I need to go to sleep to be ready for dawn watch tomorrow.

Brennan D., A Watch

P.S. There are no images from today as I write this, so I will be using my favorite ones from our time in St. John.