A female grad student was taking to the captain and mentioned his boat. The captain corrected her and said it was a ship, not a boat. We are either sitting dead still while coring, or we are going very slow acquiring seismic reflection data. So, I tried to get her to go up to the bridge and ask the captain if he could get his dinghy going any faster, but she refused.

We each have our own coffee mug and glass numbered with our bunk number and they sit on pegs in the dining room...you just rinse off your own mug and re-use. The Chief mate's was missing and he was not happy about that. I see this morning that the #2 glass is back and I take it as a sign that our problems with coring the older material will be resolved and we will get a 3 m-long core in the 1 million year old pre-Mid Pleistocene climate transition world tonight.

Chris