AMT Blog

Being at sea can be especially frustrating, there are no local hardware shops to pop to, or technicians you can call out to fix your equipment, it’s all down to you. I’m really lucky, my sampling rig is about as simple as it gets, any problems are easy to fix and each day there is a lot of time when the rig isn’t being used if I needed to fix a problem. However as part of the AMT program there are a number of measures that are continuous, and far more technical, than anything I have to do. Therefore to explain about the constant struggle an underway system presents, I introduce Laura Lubelczyk from the Bigelow laboratory in Maine, in the United States.

After another long day of work yesterday, at 8 pm I decided it was time to call it quits and head for my bed. This is one routine that I usually have nailed and one that doesn’t often get interrupted, brush teeth, lights out and sleep (having got up at 4am this last bit comes incredibly easily). Last night the plan was all coming together, and having just got into bed I was ready and willing to accept my fate and head off into the land of dreams. Yet at precisely that moment something really strange happened, the phone in my cabin rang. I didn’t even know I had a phone!