{"id":329,"date":"2004-01-22T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/01\/22\/drake-passage-southern-ocean-2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-14T23:12:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T07:12:57","slug":"drake-passage-southern-ocean-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/01\/22\/drake-passage-southern-ocean-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Passage, Southern Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six to eight meter waves on the Drake Passage &#8212; about half of what a big storm would bring, but still enough to send the boat rolling at a twenty-five degree angle.  Chairs and glasses were crashing at breakfast, and my brief attempt to get a picture of the waves from the seventh deck ended quickly when one crashed over the bow and drenched me.  I finally gave in last night and took some motion sickness drugs, and today I&#8217;ve got blurred vision but no naseau.  It&#8217;s fun to experience a bit of rough weather, but it&#8217;s also rather a shame as the waves are keeping most folks in their rooms.  Hopefully once we round Cape Horn in another hour or so the seas will calm a bit and everyone will again be venturing out.<\/p>\n<p>A few random memories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;These two fellows washed overboard, so we had a couple of empty seats at dinner; didn&#8217;t talk about it much.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;OK, I&#8217;ll do it, as long as it doesn&#8217;t make me sticky.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The boot wash after landings, dubbed the &#8220;de-pooping process&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mambo sawa sawa!  Fantastic!  Good karma!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You know, it&#8217;s not the sea that&#8217;s the problem, it&#8217;s the god-damned ship that keeps moving.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The disco ball, and the horrified look on Rick&#8217;s face as he realized his two roommates were having a Saturday Night Fever moment.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ryan to the bridge, Ryan to the bridge please.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank my sponsors, Preparation H and Tucks Medicated Pads.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also worth noting is that Doug generously offered to bring me back on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheesemans.com\/antarctica2005.html\">2005-2006 trip<\/a> as a zodiac driver, so in addition to Ted&#8217;s South Georgia trip in April there&#8217;s an excellent chance that I might again be a visitor to this end of the earth.  I&#8217;ve asked him to let me verify that I&#8217;m still employed when I get back to the States, but provided Warner Brothers still needs me then I&#8217;ll be signing on for a return visit to this land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six to eight meter waves on the Drake Passage &#8212; about half of what a big storm would bring, but still enough to send the boat rolling at a twenty-five degree angle. Chairs and glasses were crashing at breakfast, and my brief attempt to get a picture of the waves from the seventh deck ended &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/01\/22\/drake-passage-southern-ocean-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drake Passage, Southern Ocean&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-antarctica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}