July 13, 2012
The Catch
So I left something really important out…
As I mentioned before the cruise leaves out of Barbados, heads to some open water sites, than toward the mouth of the Amazon River near Brazil. However there is a catch. What I did not mention is that currently this cruise is only tentative. WHAT??? But you are already there on the boat, I am sure you are all thinking. We first must get clearance into Brazilian waters and getting clearance from any country is not always straightforward. We have actually tried to get this clearance twice before, for each of the last two ANACONDAS cruises, and failed. NSF will only pay for the ship time if we get the clearance, if we don’t, the boat will head back to the U.S. and our cruise will not happen. We are all moving forward as if we are setting sail on Friday. I don’t think it’s affecting anybody really. Some of us speculate that they may let us go out anyway because we have shipped all our equipment here, the boat is already here, and so are we. But that was not the agreement so we will just see…
Tick, Tock….Tick, Tock…