A Picture Post!

 Finally! I head back out to sea Thursday morning! I forgot I took some pictures of the ship before the oil leak last time. So here they are!
And if you want to follow our ship at sea, here is a tracking link! It's pretty sweet!

http://shiptracker.noaa.gov/ship.aspx?ship_code=ORSCSACQ&XMIN=-92.17658546123103&YMIN=27.3912382125854&XMAX=-86.85811302509715&YMAX=30.962212562561&timeframe=cc&mapservice=st_imagery

This is my bed! I have the bottom bunk, and there is a little curtain for privacy and tiny reading lamp. For the most part it was pretty comfortable. I just had to get used to the constant see-sawing of the ship!

This is my little sink and closet! On the other side is another closet where you store the survivial suits, and the tiny shower and toilet. But it's nice that we have our own private bathroom.

This is the survivial suit that we had to put on during our "abandon ship" drill. They are pretty intense!

And this is my little window!

This is just a view of one starboard side of the ship facing the stern (like my use of ship lingo)

During my days of freetime, I would often just relax outside and watch the sea for anything interesting. I just so happen to be gazing out on the horizon when I saw a huge pod of dolphins swimming in the waves our ship was making. They were pretty small, and I think they were either Spinner or Bottlenose dolphins. There were at least 20 of them swimming all over.

One of the deckhands saw me taking pictures of the dolphins, and he offered to try to take my picture with them. This is just one of many pictures, but I don't think he ever got the dolphins in the picture. ha

This is just a view of the a part of the stern from the third story. Lots of satellite and radio equipment.

Remember when I said there was a workout room on the ship. Well, this is it! There are a couple pieces of equipment scattered throughout the ship. A treadmill in a closet in the basement, weights in another store room, and on the third level there's this bike!

So I had alot of free time on the ship (almost five days), and this is where I would spend most of my days, up on the top deck, in a pull out chair, just relaxing and reading! Not too shabby of a life!
Can't wait to update ya'll on what life is like when I actually start working! Hopefully, we won't have another oil leak!