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Friday, 7 August 2026
Noon Position: 40°47.0’ N x 070°27.3’ W
Ship Heading: 153°
Ship Speed: 6.3 kn
Log: 80.3 nm
Weather: Wind, no rain
On the Continental Shelf, just past Hydrographers Canyon.

Greetings from the blogosphere! I believe this is our second day on the water and our fifth day on the Corwith Cramer. It’s been a very interesting experience, to say the least.  Even though we’ve just gotten underway, so far, it’s been pretty challenging but also pretty fun.

It’s been challenging because we’ve had to absorb and apply a lot of information in a short amount of time. You have to remember where things are to jot down in hourly logs, in some cases, remember where another thing is so you can use that thing to read another thing to then jot down in the log, remember how different devices and other such contraptions on the ship work, remember the phrases you have to say in different circumstances, etc. It’s a lot, but of course we aren’t expected to remember it all at once, and we have a great professional crew to help us out.

For me, at least, learning knots and rope maneuvers isn’t my strong suit at all, but you get a lot of practice with pretty much everything, so anything you might be uncomfortable with, you have the opportunity to figure out. On the other side, it’s been fun because (this is as a person who hasn’t really had a particular interest in the ocean) the ocean is actually really cool. People have seen a lot of cool things (dolphins in particular), we were able to get a sample of the seafloor, and it was just cool to see how varied the ocean can be. We’ve learned about some formations in the water off the east coast, things like George’s Bank. We’ve also looked at some things like salinity and water temperature, and what might cause differences in those in different waters. Really interesting stuff.

A WATCH – Sheldon (Author of Blog), Owen, Hayden, Mario, Alex, Thomas