Rolling seas

The wind has picked up a bit and it's suddenly very difficult moving around the ship - well, moving around is not difficult at all - just getting to where you want to go. I was carrying a cup of coffee and some papers and it took me almost a minute just to get up the stairs to the little office where I'm writing this. And I keep rolling away from my computer almost m ssing every ot er key stro ke. Fortunately I have some good "elephant skin" (a sticky kind of table cloth) that keeps my laptop from flying off my desk. The key to moving around the ship seems to be timing and you only should only move when the ship is in a good position and leaning towards the direction you are heading, except if you are heading down - when faster is not always better.

As expected the crew of course tells me that "this is nothing" - I do suspect they are showing off a bit, but we'll see. OK, I had to take break from writing there - working on your computer high up in the ship is not the best idea if the waves are starting to get to you. I was not the only one affected by the sea either, volunteer Tom and campaigner Hanne shared the relatively calm deck space behind the crane with me for a while before we started with today's fire drill.

The radar tells us we are getting close to a bunch of fishing vessels that might be engaged in unacceptable and destructive types of fishing, and may be getting a lot of cod as bycatch. We will try to get close and investigate, the sea is too rough to launch any of the inflatables so we will concentrate on finding out exactly what they are doing out here and try to establish contact.