Weds 8 Sept 2010

Today started at about 3 am. Luckily it wasn’t because of an alarm on the fish tank, it was because of the storm raging outside. I think I was awakened by the tossing of the boat, but then the strobe light flashing of lightning outside my window kept me up. I didn’t actually see much lightning, I think it all stayed in the clouds, but it was constant. The rain was coming down pretty hard and the wind was really whipping. Then the hail started. It was a pretty crazy night. We lost our tender boat, the line snapped in the rough water and apparently a couple of guys jumped on another tender to go after it. The rain really started coming down just then and from what I hear, they almost got tossed over.

Eventually it calmed down and so I got back into bed but couldn’t sleep. I flipped on my handy iPhone and launched my MLB At Bat app to try to listen to the Giants game. Turns out they were featuring it as a video feed for free so I go to watch a good portion of it. Somewhere in the 5th inning we lost internet connection so it dropped the game but I got to see the best part! At around 5:30 I finally fell back asleep just to have my alarm go off at 6:30.

This morning I was supposed to move over to the Odyssey but with the tender missing, I didn’t have a ride. All of the other tenders were out searching for the lost one. The Captain told me to just wait in my room and he would call when they were ready to take me over. So, I’ve been sitting here for over an hour waiting, watching TV, sporadically surfing the web. Finally I walked out to the aft deck to hear that we are pulling anchor and moving now, so I will go over to Odyssey after we anchor in Beaulieu. I assume that since nobody has called to report any alarms, the tank is doing ok.