From the outside, I can tell you that our ship is huge, and has a helipad! I can’t tell you too much so far about the inside of the boat, but we are officially boarding today! It’ll be a long process, getting ourselves, our luggage, and perhaps most important, all the scientific cargo onboard! But here are some things I learned about the ship so far:
Since it’s a Russian vessel, we will be on “Moscow time” regardless of what time zone we are actually in at the time (which will be changing on a minute to minute basis practically).
The “gym” onboard has books and a ping pong table. We’ll see how effective that is!
And my online communication with you is going to depend a lot on help from the “radio guy” onboard (who only speaks Russian). So my first job once settled on the ship? Become good friends with the radio guy! (This is where knowing some Russian phrases will come in very handy…)
