Quiet watches today, the swell has increased to about 3m, as its on the nose the speed has decreased slightly and the ship is pitching more.* Nobody on board is seasick but that’ll probably change after Cape Town as approximately 25 persons are coming on board to go to the ice.
I sat in on the monthly safety meeting today, where representatives from the departments get together to discuss any safety related issues that have been raised and we had a SOPEP drill, how to manage spillages on deck e.g. while refuelling, hydraulic pipe burst, etc.
*this ship pitches quite a lot for a merchant vessel. The main reasons are its relatively short length (80m) and the ice breaking bow (the bottom of the bow is effectively cut away so it can ride over the ice and use the ships weight to break the ice).
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