Day 10/11 - I'm over it

Alright y'all I'm ready to go home.

I know it seems too early for the sparkle of exploration to wear off, but you all wanted an honest look into life at sea so I'll tell the truth. Everyone is cranky, nothing works, and a handful of people have absolutely no chill. I shouldn't be this cranky until day 17, but I didn't go outside a single time today and I don't remember the last time I pooped. And I'm breaking out. And we had abandon ship drills yesterday and I had to put on the big neoprene survival suit. There aren't any photos of that, but it is something like this:

Here's some more context to set the scene:

The good news is that we have started diving and collecting a couple samples. The first couple dives are what we call shakedown dives, which are just testing all the systems and getting the ROV pilots trained and ready. They're only grabbing a few samples each dive, which is great because as previously noted, nothing works and nobody knows what's going on but everyone has opinions about how things should be working. Anyways here's the control room because it's pretty cool at least. This is during launch so if anyone notices the garbage data on the screens (I'm looking at you, Brian), that's why.

Here's some of the rocks we got today:

We also got one sediment push core yesterday, which was pretty cool and was the first time that's been done on this platform. There are lots of new samples and methods being used on this cruise, and I like seeing new things but it's also stretching my data management brain and making me a little frantic. So sorry that this post is a downer. I'm going to finish crashing out and then drink my sleepytime tea and then go to bed and hope that everything is better tomorrow.