{"id":99,"date":"2014-09-09T23:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/being-a-young-marine-scientist\/?p=99"},"modified":"2014-09-26T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T13:04:56","slug":"first-day-on-the-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/being-a-young-marine-scientist\/2014\/09\/09\/first-day-on-the-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"First day on the ship"},"content":{"rendered":"

We left Kaohsiung yesterday evening and arrived late in Anping harbor where our ship, the OR5 (Ocean Researcher vessel 5 from the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, TORI), was waiting for us and welcoming us with firework.<\/p>\n

Ok, ok , I have to admit that the firework wasn’t for us but for the moon festival that Taiwanese celebrated during the weekend. It was so nice to see fireworks everywhere and see people eating barbecues in the streets. The tradition also wants you to eat pomelo and moon cakes (Ya-Nung, keep me some for October!)<\/p>\n

Nous avons quitt\u00e9 la ville de Kaohsiung hier en fin de journ\u00e9e et sommes arriv\u00e9s dans le port d’Anping en fin de soir\u00e9e. Not<\/em>re navire de recherche, l’OR5 (Ocean Researcher 5 de l’Institut de Recherche Ta\u00efwanais TORI) nous attendait d\u00e9j\u00e0 ; nous accueillant avec des feux d’artifices !<\/em><\/p>\n

Bon, d’accord, j’avoue… Les feux d’artifices n’\u00e9taient pas pour nous mais avaient lieu en raison du ” festival de la lune ” que les ta\u00efwanais c\u00e9l\u00e9braient ce weekend. C’\u00e9tait magnifique \u00e0 voir ! Des feux d’artifices partout dans les rues et tout le monde se retrouvait dehors autour d’un barbecue ! La tradition veut \u00e9galement que l’on mange des pomelos et des g\u00e2teaux en forme de lune durant le festival (Ya-Nung, garde-moi des g\u00e2teaux pour Octobre !)<\/em><\/p>\n

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But let’s go back to our main topic: our first day on OR5…<\/p>\n

We dedicated the first day to the unpacking of the boxes and sorted out the material that we will need in the next coming days for different seismic experiments (OBS, 2D and 3D). While one team was setting up the computer lab and checking the 3D equipment (P-Cable), the second one (to which I belong) checked out the OBS equipment.<\/p>\n

Mais revenons \u00e0 notre sujet principal : notre premi\u00e8re journ\u00e9e \u00e0 bord de l’OR5…<\/em><\/p>\n

Nous avons consacr\u00e9 la premi\u00e8re journ\u00e9e \u00e0 d\u00e9baller, trier et ranger le mat\u00e9riel dont nous aurons besoin au cours des prochains jours afin d’acqu\u00e9rir les diff\u00e9rentes donn\u00e9es sismiques (OBS, 2D et 3D).\u00a0 Pendant qu’une \u00e9quipe \u00e9tait charg\u00e9e de monter le laboratoire informatique (centralisation de tous les ordinateurs) et de v\u00e9rifier l’\u00e9quipement du syst\u00e8me d’acquisition 3D (appel\u00e9 P-Cable), la seconde \u00e9quipe (\u00e0 laquelle j’appartiens) \u00e9tait en charge de v\u00e9rifier le mat\u00e9riel pour l’acquisition des donn\u00e9es OBS.<\/em><\/p>\n

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One of our first tasks was to install the GPS antenna (Global Positioning System) on the ship in order to get the time and the position of the ship synchronized with our recorders during the acquisition of the seismic data. Our second task was to check all the batteries that we will put in the releasers (connection between the OBS and the anchor of the OBS station) later on and check that the later ones were working properly.<\/p>\n

Notre premi\u00e8re t\u00e2che consistait donc \u00e0 installer l’antenne GPS (Global Positioning System) afin d’obtenir les informations concernant l’heure et la position du bateau durant l’acquisition des donn\u00e9es. La seconde consistait \u00e0 v\u00e9rifier le chargement des batteries qui seront utilis\u00e9es, par la suite, pour les largueurs (appel\u00e9s en anglais “releasers” ;\u00a0 connecteur entre l’OBS et l’ancre maintenant l’OBS sur le fond marin) et v\u00e9rifier que ces derniers fonctionnaient correctement.
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\"GPS\"<\/a> \"Theresa-releaser\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After that, we all went to the city to eat other Chinese specialities and enjoy our last night “on land” (we’re already sleeping in the ship). This dinner gave us the opportunity to know more our Taiwanese colleagues who are really nice and friendly. And for me, it was also my first official Chinese lecture! I can now write numbers up to ten and some few words such as “person”, “mountain”, “tree”, “fruit”, “water” and, one that can be useful “exit”. Impressive isn’t it?! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s cela, nous sommes all\u00e9s en ville d\u00e9couvrir de nouvelles sp\u00e9cialit\u00e9s chinoises et profiter de notre derni\u00e8re nuit ” \u00e0 terre ” (entre guillemets car nous dormons d\u00e9j\u00e0 sur le bateau depuis hier). Ce d\u00eener nous a ainsi donn\u00e9 l’occasion de mieux conna\u00eetre nos coll\u00e8gues ta\u00efwanais\u00a0 qui sont vraiment tr\u00e8s sympathiques et amicaux ! Il s’agissait, l\u00e0, \u00e9galement pour moi de mon premier cours de chinois ! Je peux d\u00e9sormais \u00e9crire les chiffres jusque dix et quelques mots comme “personne”, “montagne”, “arbre”, “fruit”, “eau” et un autre qui peut \u00eatre utile “sortie”. Impressionnant, non ? !\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09
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