3407 nautical miles – how do we get to New Zealand?
While we are still transiting from Fremantle to New Zealand, I got curious about navigation. How is the course planned?…
Trust the Thrusters
One of the strange things about traveling on a drill ship is, that after going straight ahead for hundreds of…
Navigation
When you stand outside, on a ship, in the middle of a vast expanse of water, you become completely disorientated…
A Gold Star or a Big Red Cross
I had really been looking forward to Easter Sunday on this wide expanse of Pacific. I had often heard about…
Coming on Site, Old vs. New
Yesterday, we arrived at our second site with little fanfare or excitement, which is a far cry from what it…