{"id":93,"date":"2016-03-09T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/?p=93"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T10:34:40","slug":"just-another-day-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/2016\/03\/09\/just-another-day-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another day in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just another day in Paradise. No, really. After writing this blog, I am going to head up to the sun deck with a good book and enjoy the waveless, windless, sunny day. Yesterday\u2019s multinet sample contained very few microplastic particles for me to count- thus I have the day off before my shift starts at 16:00. Yesterday was another story altogether, but I will not bore you with depressing statistics about pelagic plastics. Instead, I will jot down a list of some of the highlights of the cruise so far, as given by my fellow students and some of the scientists:<\/p>\n

The food (Everything is amazingly fresh. We get dessert at lunch time- my favorite is the fruit and ice cream. Not to mention the cakes at tea time.<\/p>\n

\"From

From ice cream to cake at tea time- everything is fresh and tasty<\/p><\/div>\n

The people (OBVIOUSLY!).<\/p>\n

\"Crew

Crew on board<\/p><\/div>\n

Working shifts (I have a suspicion that it was a sarcastic answer, but the games we play to amuse ourselves while waiting for the uCTD to be reeled in are hillarious).<\/p>\n

\"Working

Working shift fun!<\/p><\/div>\n

Mate (a strange green tea that the South Americans love).<\/p>\n

The sunset of 4 March was a highlight for almost everybody.<\/p>\n

\"Sunset

Sunset in March from RV Meteor<\/p><\/div>\n

Kicker tournaments! (Now that everybody has settled into their sleeping routines, evenings are occupied by kicker- I know it as foosball. Table soccer. Tim has organized a kicker league that is set to start this evening. Last time I played, I scored three goals against my own team…).<\/p>\n

Laying eyes on the Meteor <\/em>for the first time was a powerful experience for all!<\/p>\n

\"Laying

Laying eyes on RV Meteor for the first time<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of days ago, the ocean was not nearly as amiable as it is today. Deploying the multinet and CTD was a proper adventure. The shift leaders were very thankful that everybody made it out in one piece… more or less.<\/p>\n

We have started with basic oceanographic classes (Now I am starting to understand what we have been doing for the past week!)<\/p>\n

I will ask around a bit more and have a more detailed highlight sheet ready next time it is my turn to blog. Thank you for all your support from all over the world!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Veronica van der Schyff<\/a><\/p>\n

North-West University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just another day in Paradise. No, really. After writing this blog, I am going to head up to the sun deck with a good book and enjoy the waveless, windless, sunny day. Yesterday\u2019s multinet sample contained very few microplastic particles for me to count- thus I have the day off before my shift starts at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanblogs.org\/mysciencecruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}