Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 02:58:57 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jason Goodman <sci5@knorr.whoi.edu>
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Subject: This is more what I expected...
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47 43' N 51 55' W
Temp -9 C, Winds 20 m/s
Seas: unpleasant.

  We rounded the southern tip of Newfoundland this afternoon.  You could 
see the low bluffs and seacliffs way off to the north.  The weather 
instantly turned nasty as we did so.  The wind is now about 40 mph, and 
we're heading into swells about eight feet high or so.  The forward parts 
of the ship are "gravity optional": you feel like you're about to lift 
off the floor once every six seconds.  A friend mentioned that he build 
an accelerometer once, and wished he had it with him.  I wonder how a 
rocking ship would register on a Richter scale?  Everyone on the ship is 
dancing: to get anywhere, you have to wait until the boat is rocking in 
the direction you want to go, and move at the right speed to have it help 
you stop when you get there.  You move with the rhythm of the ship, or 
else you fall down.
  I've been sleeping a whole lot: there's not much to do at the moment, 
and the rocking tends to put me to sleep.