Black Sea 2007, Day 7
Today’s the day! Our first dive. Everyone’s very excited. We haven’t gone in the water since Galveston, in March. It’s always nerve wracking, because you never know what you forgot to do or what you didn’t calculate correctly. The good news is these guys have been doing this for so long they’ve got there ducks in a row. The bad news is with every ship comes their own quirks. With this one, the IFE crew isn’t allowed to touch the vehicles during launch and recovery. IFE brings its own bosun to handle the vehicles on deck and during launch and recovery as they have a direct “Hands-on” approach with the vehicles. This should add a new twist to the whole experience.
We start going “On Watch” today. Typically we’re working 24 hours a day. Unfortunately the human body can’t continue working 24 hours a day, for too long. So, they break it up into three times during the day. There are three shifts: Midnight to 4 am, 4 am to 8 am, 8 am to Noon. And then it repeats: Noon to 4 pm, etc. This is nice because you work four hours and then have 8 hours off. During the “overnight” time you have a chance to sleep, during the “day time” you can get work done (or blog) or read, watch movies, etc. During this leg of the expedition there’s Doc Mary, Bob Knott (ex-Chief engineer out of Rhode Island Public) and me. Bob has Midnight to 4, Doc Mary has 4 to 8, and I have 8 to Noon.
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