Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006

R/V MIRAI

"cruising to southward"

Partly cloudy in the morning, later rain
At the night, MIRAI is now under the influence of the typhoon with strong east-north-easterly. Significant wave height exceeds 3m.

Observations:

As we were closing to the typhoon, sea conditions became worth. Figure attached shows the time series of the true wind speed. X-axis indicates the time expressed as UTC. So, it depicts the time variation of wind speed from 00:00 LST, October 4 (= 15:00 UTC, Oct. 3) through 00:00 LST, October 6.

Remarks:

We are now cruising to southward, as if we were catching the typhoon. Photo-1 shows the sea conditions in the morning. At that time, it was not so rough at all.
Today, we had a fire drill in the afternoon. However, as we practiced seriously, we have no photo on this. Just before the dinner time, we prayed the Kompira-san for the safety and productive cruise (photo-2).