So, I found out today that if you put me on a 100 foot, 100 ton vessel in seas greater than five feet high and feed me nothing but fried food for two days, I get sea sick. Still, its better than flying on a plane.
But really, the off-shore work isn’t that bad. I’m paired off with guys from AIS, a fish observing group, and we do trawls. I pick through for oil while they pick through for different species of fish, pretty much the edible ones. Once I’m doing grabbing my samples though, I help them out, mainly with identifying the shrimp, Royal Reds and some of the fish, but we’ve found a bunch of fish I’ve never seem. Like stargazers, goose-fish, which are better known as Monk Fish, and some cool sharks. It’s a lot different than being on shore and I like and don’t like it at the same time. Something about being stuck with six guys on a small boat in the middle of the Gulf isn’t exactly the most… enticing job description? We came into port and then were sent back out, hopefully I should be back in port on Saturday, the 11th. Just good to get back on land, see my friends before the Christmas break. Maybe get extended if they’ll have me, and try to get my next deployment.
Who knows?
