Wrapping up the Sea life

Hey gang,  Monday night about 11:00 pm shiptime.  Awesome couple of days.  Yesterday was beautiful day on the North Pacific.  We spent a lot of time on the steel beach during our break times. Had group pictures taken so we all have some great memories to share.  Spent the day in class doing some geology that I cannot wait to bring back to my students at Northwest.  Finally saw some wildlife.  We had a sea lion swimming along side the ship.  It was pretty neat.  Had a whale visit today but didn't get a picture.  As nice as yesterday was today was complete opposite.  Today we had 15 ft waves that really got us to rocking.  It was unbelievable how much different the surface was today compared to yesterday.  Lots of energy out there today.  We are winding things down as tomorrow morning they will start bring the camera up from about 1200 meters below.  All in all it will take about 24 hours to bring up the pipe and camera and wind up back at the dock in Victoria.  I do beleive that we are ready to get back on solid ground.  Anyway, that is about all for now.  Catch you tomorrow.