If your  palate does not enjoy fish, then you shouldn’t consider a lengthy deployment on a Japanese ship.  Thankfully, this mariner happens to love fish.  Fish is the predominant item at virtually all meals onboard. Dining is a social affair onboard and...

Mid September in the Arctic is the time of seasonal change when it comes to ice. It is the change from melt and retreat of ice to freezing and advance. With that change, the Ice Navigator’s role begins to change from one of constantly looking for the next new...

One of the benefits of RV Mirai’s size is the capacity to complete observations across a wide variety of disciplines and provide real time assessment of the observations and samples taken combining the research into one big picture from numerous smaller ones. Research...

For this 42 day cruise, 17 September is mid trip point. That said, the Mirai’s Arctic deployments tend to be six weeks from Dutch Harbor to Dutch Harbor with 2 week voyages between Japan and Dutch Harbor on either side, so the duration onboard is not the same for all....