The sea life drawn to this rocky volcanic pinicle rising out of the deep is so prolific and diverse I can't help but get excited for what we may see tomorrow!

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The crew and I had a very busy turn around in preperation for this trip. We completed a thorough audit of our safety management systems conducted by  Lloyd’s. It is a pleasure to work on a vessel that though not required by regualation to meet this high standard of certification, has been chosen by the owners to volentarily comply with the stringent requirements to maintain a certificate demonstarting compliance to International Safety management. The audit, or more correctly inspection ensures our safety procedures, and equipment, training, and documentation and reporting are all to a high standard, and continually improving. As I previously mentioned its a pleasure to work on a vessel that volentarily seeks this certification, its even better when the vessel is favorably viewed by the auditor, and passes!
In an effort to not write the most boring or technical blog from the crew (I will leave that to engeenering dept) I also have to include the fact that the crew was appointed honarary Australians for Australia Day. We were not given large hunting knives, (re. Croc dundee) and we all have our own unique accents with the english language already, but we did receive and proudly wear t-shirts representing our temporary Australian citizenship and the ships canteen now has a unique furry bottle opener that you would have to see in person to believe, and that I cannot describe for fear of censorship… (note from Captain Gordon: it’s a kangaroo scrotum bottle opener).
We are off to our final day of diving a Roca Partida, and I will be driving through the night so must get my hours of rest prior to midnight, but its not going to be an easy sleep as the diving a Roca can be very exciting. The great whale pictures from previous trip were taken there and despite lots of Whales, sharks and Mantas at Soccorro I have high hopes for tomorrow. Roca is a very unique place, not much to look at on Radar at four am, really a blip the size of a ship in middle of the sea, but the sea life drawn to this rocky volcanic pinicle rising out of the deep is so prolific and diverse I cant help but get excited for what we may see tomorrow!
 
Chief Mate Aaron

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