Last night’s dreams consistently returned to the image of sleeping on a porch swing pulled and pushed to its limits by a maniac, a rhythmic alternation between weightlessness and a […]

We’re holding station west of FLMA2 amid worsening seas. It’s not bad, but bad enough that we’ve postponed trying to retrieve HYPM1, the last of the undersea moorings from last […]

Sorry for the radio silence – things have been understandably busy, both above deck and below. Up top, the science team has been working like crazy to deploy the rest […]

Morning brought a miserable drizzle, but the flattest seas we’ve seen since we left port. It was time to get to work. First order of the cruise was to get […]

Another day, another bout of nausea, another look at the weather to see if we can unload some of honking big pieces of science sitting on the back deck. Yeah, […]

I promise, I am not making any of this up. Because I couldn’t make this sort of thing up: we’ve broken off our original deployment plan to hunt down and […]

Yesterday? Yesterday morning was a slow gray haze of nausea, soda crackers, naps and waking thinking, briefly and quite mistakenly, that I was feeling better. I mean, the weather wasn’t […]

I’d really hoped that the Promethazine was going to get me through it. I’d hoped, at least, that we’d make it to open sea. But we hadn’t even rounded the […]

An enormous white cross on the distant mountaintop marks the southernmost point of the continent proper, where the spine of the Andes subsides and finally succumbs to the Southern Ocean. […]