We set sail on Monday from our home port of Southampton. We had been mobilising the ship since Friday in preparation for departure. Our rusting hunk of scientific history, as the BBC called poor old Discovery, sat in contrast with the enormous, white Ventura across the pier in Ocean Terminal.
We don't usually mobilise from Southampton–often we fly to the Canary islands and moblise there. Mobilising at home has the advantage of allowing you to sleep in your own bed and not having to stand behind people who neither move nor walk on the moving walkways in Gatwick. On the downside, the scientific party haven't had the chance to get to know each other.
Over the next few posts, everyone will have a chance to introduce themselves. In the meanwhile here's our glamorous set of scientists.
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