Short update before the last trip

Here we are again, back in Ushuaia where things slowly start to wind down and the weather is turning even windier and chillier than during the earlier summer months... ;-)

After one trip on the "Grigoriy Mikheev" with 17 divers I was scheduled to "jump ship" once again and lead another diving expedition on the "Aleksey Maryshev", the sister ship of the "Mikheev". Unfortunately, the "Maryhsev" was not able to sail due to some engine issues, so I was suddenly stuck in town without a ship to work on.

After two days that situation was resolved and I was relocated on yet another Oceanwide vessel, the "Professor Multanovskiy", which happens to be my very first ship that I worked on for Oceanwide (Arctic summer 2002). It was certainly a challenging trip since we had a charter group onboard who were planning on doing ice climbing, kayaking and "regular excursions" every day (morning and afternoon!), and on top of that they requested to be put ashore twice for a night of camping on Antarctica.

So we were all pretty busy making it all happen, and I am happy to say that the kayaking worked out great, the climbers were happy with the spots we found for them, and also the camping worked out well. But it was pretty intense and there was a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes as well (but I will not talk about that here obviously...).

Today we are heading out again, for the last voyage of the season, and we expect a full ship again. This time it will be with "normal passengers", i.e. no climbing, no camping and no (scheduled) kayaking either. I am instructed to give kayaking a go anyway if there are some experienced and interested customers onboard, and if conditions allow. Unfortunately our kayak guide had to leave after this trip so I will have to double-task: expedition leading and kayak guiding! Should be fun...

More about all that - and hopefully there will also be time for new pictures - in April when I will be back home again.