We're having some pretty rough weather again these days. During today's watch we had a roll that scooted Yvonne out of her chair. We tried station 224, but stopped after only 1500 meters because it was too rough. The tension was fluctuating between 100 and 4000 lbs. The CTD recovery was rather wild. The rosette was swinging all over the place. David got his line attached. His line was whipping around, at times slack and then snapping when the rosette pulled on it. It snapped him in the chest and kind of pushed him back. He was pretty startled. Dan was working on hooking his line, and Scott had to tell him to duck out of the way of the rosette and a line. Dan pretty much dropped to the deck. Yvonne said it definitely swung where his head had just been. Fortunately, they got it safely down, with no harm done except to one of the shackles that attached the rosette to the wire. It was a very solid shackle, but somewhere during the cast it got twisted. Good thing it held. Scott had fun hammering it off.
All throughout the night Yvonne and I had to wear Mustang suits for the XCTDs. For the first one we went out wearing our foul weather gear. Adam said he wanted us to wear Mustang suits because he wasn't worried about us getting wet, he was more worried about us getting swept into the ocean if a wave came on deck. The waves have really been pounding us from the port side. The other night while we were sampling a wave hit the port side. The water cascaded over the 01 deck and poured down near the CTD hanger. No waves came on deck while we were launching XCTDs. Here Bernadette and Luis are launching an XCTD during the day.
