Sea Day 2nd in a Row...Woohoo!

Today we woke up to wind again. The schedule was to release a weather balloon at 8:45 AM. We were debating on if we should go. I decided at 8:15 that we should throw on our warm clothes and go.

We went up to the 6th deck and stood around for a bit as they were having some technical issues with the communications with the balloon.

The Octantis and Polaris are the only two civilian ships certified to release and gather data from weather ballons.

As we were releasing the balloon, we were next to a huge iceberg. It was 2 times the size of Manhattan, 1300 Feet Deep, and estimated to weigh 33.9 billion tons. These icebergs create their own weather so the weather balloon data could prove to be very interesting.

They came out with the balloon and quickly launched it. We are looking forward to hearing all about the data that it relayed during the daily recap.

We headed to breakfast to try and thaw out.

We went back to stateroom and did some work.

We had lunch in World Cafe. Tug and Angela came to lunch just as we were finishing up. We stayed and had a lengthy conversation with them.

We had a quiet afternoon as we are going to try to go to the Expedition member's talk in the hideRead more