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		<title>Sunday 27 February 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1910 – Some days are tougher than others. This morning we wake up to dirty, muddy baskets packed to the tops with the garbage of the ocean. We shimmy down the hatches into solid darkness – not a shimmer of sunshine is seeping through the materials stuck to the screens. My companion and I each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=119&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday 23 February 2011 – Day 6, ‘Rock the boat!’ 0330 – Not dumping until sunrise means I have hours to kill. I clock over an hour in the ‘gym’; boxing, doing yoga and laps between the ‘gym’ and the ‘Laundromat’. On deck, between stairwells, it’s windy and wet outside… where did this rain come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=108&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, 22 February 2011 – Day 5, Open Seas 1050 - The land workers came aboard today. These are the company office workers who plan, prep and organize the operation from a financial, governmental and scientific stand point. There’s talk of changing location for awhile, as the pumping station barge was in need of some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=106&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday 21 February 2011 – Day 4 0705 – In just a few days, we’ve settled into a routine. I wake up at 2315, check what’s going on in the bridge, and then head to the galley with my fellow observer for my supper. We catch up on the past 8 hours where I’ve been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=104&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday 19 February 2011 – Day 2 0416 – Finally a load where we can explore! My trainer and I take turns going into each of the four baskets. We climb down the hatch it’s like a different world inside. Half the basket is solid steel walls and the other half is a grid of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=99&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dredging Diaries by Stav</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day 1 - Friday 18 February 2011 0440 hrs – After weeks of waiting the day has finally come. The dredging operation is ready for us Observers and this morning I finally get to see what my life on the ‘floating vacuum vessel’ is going to look like! 0600 – We’ve made it to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=91&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Such a Lovely Cruise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the moment that your private boat and driver meet you at the dock, you realize that your Fantastic Voyage is underway. Upon arrival at the Funship, you are met by the crew that welcomes you aboard and assists with your bags (along with any groceries or other supplies that the crewboat brought) onto the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=90&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new member of the Observing family</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Observing is a field in which there are often times of high turn over. Observers inherently move from project to project which brings us the opportunity to hire new people, at times we run across biologist who have worked in similar fields before but have yet to do ship-based work. Recently I had the opportunity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=55&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Comes to the South</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the daylight hours have shortened and the end of the year nears it has finally turned to winter in the South. I am currently working a project off the coast off Alabama. What many people do not realize is it does get cold in the southern United States, and it is quite a different [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=43&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Riding Out the Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being home for a few weeks while the ship I have been working on was in dry dock I was finally able to return to work on the 8th. There are always a few minor glitches to work out when a ship begins to work again after being pulled out of the water for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cturtles.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9533911&amp;post=30&amp;subd=cturtles&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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