Information

Vessel:
Happy Diamond
Report (sitrep) ID:
21026
Universal time (UTC):
08:00
Australian time (AEST):
16:00
Position:
33° 59′ S, 111° 28′ E
Heading:
058
Speed:
12.5 kn
Distance in last 24 hours:
331 NM
Weather conditions:
Wind NE 13 kts NE, cloudy with patches of blue
Air temperature:
20 °C
Sea conditions:
Swell 0.5m, wave 0.5m
Sea temperature:
20 °C

Comments

This will be my final sitrep for this voyage. It has been a fun voyage with a lot of challenges that everyone has worked together to overcome so we thought we would finish with a few statistics for you to ponder:

Overall manifested cargo delivered & backloaded - 96.31%

Casey: using a barge and pontoons
•   1,286t of cargo delivered – 100%
•   97 watercraft cargo transfers
•   6 heavy plant movements in 1 day
•   455t of cargo loaded for return to Australia – 100%
•   85 watercraft cargo transfers

Davis: using a barge and pontoons
•   539t of cargo delivered – 100%
•   94 watercraft cargo transfers
•   233t of cargo loaded for return to Australia – 100%
•   39 watercraft cargo transfers

Mawson: using a barge
•   189t of cargo delivered – 100%
•   40 watercraft cargo transfers
•   19t of cargo loaded for return to Australia – 16.03%
•   6 watercraft cargo transfers

At each station there were also numerous ship to shore passenger transfers.

73   days on the ship
68   days since we left Hobart

The AAD team is made up of:
•   Voyage Leader
•   Deputy Voyage Leader
•   Watercraft Coordinator + 4 watercraft operators
•   Doctor
•   Communications technician
•   Ice Pilot
•   Plant operator

19 Happy Diamond crew members

We will miss the crew who welcomed us on board in December, who always have a smile on their faces and are joyfully singing around the ship.

Finally, Jacob and I would like to take this opportunity to express our thanks and gratitude to the AAD V5 team, Happy Diamond crew, support staff at AAD particularly from the Shipping team and the teams on the ground at Casey, Davis and Mawson stations. The success of any voyage is a combined effort with many groups working together to deliver voyage objectives and even with the blip at Mawson we can all be proud of our achievements.

Our arrival in Fremantle remains on schedule 0600LT at the pilot station on Saturday 4 March.

Cheers
Leanne and Jacob

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