Dave and Brian's Excellent Adventures

Black Sea 2007, Day 24

It finally happened: The refugees (whether their the ones stuck on land or on the Alliance) have met their final destiny. The students from the University of Delaware, that were working with AUV, are finally going home (after 5 days). The scientists that have been waiting on shore to meet up with the Alliance have had a turbulent trip.

The best story happened yesterday when they climbed onto a boat and travelled 5 hours to middle of the Black Sea. They had the coordinates from the Chief Scientist on board the Alliance, but the captain of the chase boat decided he didn’t need it. When they reached the middle of no where and didn’t find the Alliance, the only ship they saw was an oil tanker. The captain asked the scientists if the oil tanker could be the Alliance, when they said, “No!” the captain went back to shore. He later called the captain of the Alliance to see if he had moved the ship. His answer was no, but when he asked what coordinates he used the answer was 34’ 11”. The Alliance was at 35’ 11”. Oops.

When they finally got on board the Alliance, I was pretty sure some of them were so overjoyed, they were smiling and hugging people, I thought a couple of them were going to cry.

posted by DaveandBrian @ 3:40 AM