We have been participating in the ARC SSB net everyday. The net is where boats fitted with SSB (long range radios), call in at set times twice a day to announce any problems and to share information such as weather. Dangers like the coordinates of migrant boats and abandoned fishing boats adrift have also been shared on the net over the past days. Captain acts as one of the SSB net controllers which means he kicks off the call at the appropriate time and moderates the conversation, so that all boats get an opportunity to talk.
Today, we learnt from the net that another boat, Songbird of London, had seen a large pod of Minke Whales which stayed with them for 45 minutes last night. So we moved today’s classroom upstairs. Alas - no whales for us...yet.
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