Since departure the ship has been cruising steadily north at 12kts.  Weather has been typical overcast, winds N/NW 15 to 20 kts until late on the 29th when winds and seas began to moderate.  That makes it better for the science crews to set up for the busy...

Though I am starting this log the day RV Mirai departed Dutch Harbor, Alaska for a 6 week science mission in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, it really began the day I left my home port of Victoria on the 22nd. Not a problem flying from Victoria to Anchorage. I stopped...