Ship warming visit

Although it is a science blog, it is time to do a tour of our new house since a week now: 

the Research Vessel Dana.

Welcome ! ! !

Ground floor

Most of the common areas are situated at this floor and therefore it is where we spend most of our day-time.Let's start with the most important: the food-related areas: kitchen and dining room :)

We have breakfast at 7.30-8.00, lunch at 11.30-12.00,diner at 17.30-18.00 sharp.

Per, Jan, Anne and Ingegerd make our stay comfortable with tasty Danish meals and desserts. 

In the kitchen, we meet Per the chef, Ingegerd and Anne the stewardesses in discussion with Diego
In the dining room, Hans and Peter are testing the pineapple mousse.

To reach the different lab's, we need to take a single corridor, from the kitchen in direction of the back of the ship.

On the right, you will find, the "radiotracer lab", where we work with radioactive material and store the geochemistry material; the "sub-bottom/ecosounder/CTD lab", where we can observe the different water masses in the water column with the CTD (salinity, temperature, depth) and the sea bottom with the sub-bottom profiler (the specialist is Lars). 

On the top left: the microscope room, on the top right: the CTD/sub bottom profiler room with Lars
On the bottom left: the fish lab and on the bottom right: the wall where all important info are: weather forecast, science daily plan, cast of the different cores/net/CTD.

 On the left, there are the "wet lab" or "fish lab", where we sub sample, open and describe the gravity cores, and sort the eels larva out of the rest of the net catch; the "microscope lab", where we observe the different minerals, small stones, ash fragments and shells found in the sediment layers.

Let's go out in the deck, where we found the secret place of the crew for the coffee break. This is the relax place to be !

On the top left: Sebastian and Tim relaxing, below: Ingegerd and Tim. On the right, we are on the top of the ship, on the bridge with Thomas.

Second floor
Then, we take the stairs to go 2 floors up ! Some exercises are needed to burn all the rich food we ingest everyday !! We meet Thomas, the chief officer, working on the bridge this morning. Up there, you can find many instruments and screens with mysterious functions (maybe a post would be needed). 


First floor
A floor below, we have our meeting room, where each student presented their PhD-project at home. The big screen is very too sensitive: perfect to draw cartoons but a nightmare during presentations... There is also the new favorite place for the guys: play-station and sofa.

On the left, our meeting room. Just below, Anna-Marie and Melanie playing with the screen. In the centre, the two pictures were taken at the same moment (working ladies and leisure moment for the men).
On the right, the living room, our coffee break place.

Before exploring the cabin area, let's take a tea and a piece of cake in the living room (ground floor).... yes, we are spoiled in this ship. 

Lower floor
A floor below, we have all the cabins of the students and most of the crew. To reach the rooms, we walk along some long narrow yellow corridors...Our woody rooms are quite luxurious : bathroom, comfortable bed, a desk with a big monitor, and a radio. Nevertheless, we spend not much time here... except Marta who is the new specialist for testing beds !!!

The woody cosy cabin that all of us have  (except chief scientist). You should all try to have a shower when the ship is moving... it can be quite acrobatic !

What comes next?
What is missing in this visit? ? ?  The machine rooms and numerous workshops that make the ship moving towards Denmark.... Our next reporter Diego will write about it soon :)