We met to pack the vans bright and early at 7:30am on Monday. After pretty rapid packing due to the excellent turnout of helpful graduate students, Chief Scientist Dan Kamykowski and graduate students, Linda Waters and Cathy Thompson drove two hours to Wilmington to pick up Prof. John Morrison, post-doc Wendy Woods, and graduate student Ebenezer Nyadjro from UNCW Marine Lab. We packed the vans there with more instrumentation and then we were off for our long drive (~9.5 hours) to just south of Atlanta, GA where we stopped for the night.
After the 5 hour drive on Tuesday morning, we met Dr. Blake Schaeffer (former graduate student and post-doc at NCSU) at the Environmental Protection Agency in Gulf Breeze, FL, where he is now employed. We toured the facilty while Dr. Geoff Sinclair of LUMCON (former NCSU graduate student) used the laboratory facilities for cruise preparation.
Unfortunately, we learned this afternoon that the ship was delayed coming in to port due to bad weather in St. Petersburg, FL. The ship is unable to make port in Pensacola until early Wednesday morning. So, we made the best of the afternoon preparing gear and chemical solutions, getting dive tanks filled, and making alternate cruise plans. We then had a fresh fish barbeque at Blake's house, complete with a cake to celebrate his first wedding anniversary.
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