V3 sitrep – Sunday, 19 February 2017

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Cargo operations commenced after lunch yesterday and progressed much quicker than anticipated. This meant that by mid afternoon all of the RTA cargo had been loaded to the vessel. It also enabled us the time to commence the set up of a new mooring system for refuelling over West Arm. This is a new procedure that we are testing so if we are unable to conduct refuelling operations from within Horseshoe Harbour we have worked up another procedure.

This morning we completed the new mooring system successfully. The mooring lines from the ship were joined to the set up on West Arm and the ship was positioned to determine where best to set up the fuel hose. As with any new system being tested we have learnt a lot from it and are developing improved processes.

A group of expeditioners also went to several islands to clean up rubbish that has accumulated over a period of time. They are currently making their way back to station. We will then recover the refuelling set up from West Arm and we are almost ready to depart Mawson. We have a few more passenger transfers for after dinner and then we will depart at 9pm bound for Davis.

Thanks to everyone shore side and ship based for a safe and efficient operation. It truly takes a team effort to make all of this work.

Cheers
Leanne, Simon and Amy

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