Another transit day and a rather uneventful one at that. Now, normally everyone finds these days rather tedious, but the last few days have been so crazy that everyone was happy to have a day of rest…or sorts. I slept until about 9 or so and rose to the sound of a helicopter circling the boat. This morning was the aerial shoot, where a helicopter flies over the boat and films it sailing along. So Paul, Tooni, Lucy and I gathered on the bow to pose for the grand establishing shot. After about an hour of shooting from every conceivable angle, the helicopter was off and it was time to film random, what we call, ‘whittling’ shots; essentially short shots of each of us doing various things around the boat. Everything from washing clothes in a bucket, preparing our dive gear, reviewing charts, writing this blog, even playing poker, anything is fair game and helps to document what we do onboard in between formal expedition shoots. By the early afternoon, that was done and we all hunkered down to spend our time however we saw fit, either prepping gear (see pic), hanging out in the lounge (see pic), or planning the next few dives (see pic).

It was a good, quasi rest time, as tomorrow is going to be a hectic day, full of everything from helicopters to primordial toxic bacteria.
Stay tuned…

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