Sailing toward America

Date: August 17, 2008
Location: The Atlantic Ocean
Lat: 33° 27.4N Long: 048° 21.50W

Well, we’ve been sailing for a while now. I suppose first things first. My concussion is gone; thankfully I’m feeling a whole lot better. There have been a lot of things happening and unfortunately I’ve forgotten some things.

I suppose one thing I can mention is that we had to stop for fuel at Gibraltar. This was a pretty neat process. We pulled up extremely close to the Rock and I was able to get some absolutely great photos of it. Also, we never actually docked at the port, instead we simply dropped anchor and had a ship come alongside and fill up our tanks. This took awhile but it was a new experience.

After we refueled we headed out into the Atlantic. Since then it has been a lot of work. Pretty much everyone on the ship has been swamped with writing papers. When we’re not writing papers we’re tanning on the deck, so it is not all bad, I guess.

There have been a lot of fun things going on. The Ship’s Crew put on a talent show which was a lot of fun. Usually we just see the crew as a blue uniform that performs services for us. However, it was particularly cool to be able to see their personalities shine forth. This wasn’t too fun for me because of the flashing lights and loud noises still gave me trouble.

We also had a question and answer session with the Ship’s captain and some other staff members. There were a lot of interesting questions. However, there were some absolutely stupid ones. Probably the best was a question on why the ship floats. This sort of caught the captain dumbstruck. He was absolutely hysterical because he answered a lot of questions in a smartass way.

I took the Global Studies final today. I thought it was pretty easy and breezed through it. We have two more finals the day after tomorrow. Looks like it will be more studying and relaxing. Life gets pretty slow on the M/V Explorer when you’re at sea for days.