Location: 36 18.0 N 007 02.5 W Course: 246 Speed: 13.6 kts
Weather: Mostly Sunny Wind: NE 12 kts. Seas: Small sea swell
We put the sandy beaches, plates of Iberian Chacinas (cold meats), and Salazones (special fish from the area) behind us and bid farewell to Cadiz. Students and staff alike took advantage of the tour opportunities and enjoyed the ample amount of sunshine during our stay. With eleven days to Portland, the 2/C are scrambling to get their projects done and everyone is focused on getting back across the Atlantic. The bosun has been pacing the deck waiting to get the paint out to take advantage of the weather.
Photos & Captions provided by 4/C Akerberg and 4/C McCoy:
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- 4/C Cronin and 4/C Venditto did some fishing while in Cadiz. Cronin finally catching a fish after relentlessly trying day in and day out since the start of cruise. TSSOM is definitely not made for fishing.
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- 2/C Gray and 4/C Brannon monitoring the gangway. When in port we have added security measures including roving security patrolmen and posting multiple Midshipmen at the gangway to monitor who and what is coming aboard our ship. The gangway is the only access point to the ship so it is important to be vigilant and keep a good eye out for anything suspicious coming aboard the ship.
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- Preparing for arrival.
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- 4/C Pecherek standing a lookout watch as we arrive to Cadiz. Every ship is required to keep a lookout around the clock. We have equipment such as the ARPA (Automatic Radar Plotting Aid) that can give us other ship positions and their heading, but this equipment has a small delay, and in an emergency this delay is too much to rely on the equipment alone. Another reason we have lookouts is for a backup, nearly everything about a ship is redundant with many backups, and this is just one example of that.
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- 2/C Carpenter and 4/C Roberts talking about fishing with a local. This man was one of the longshoremen that helped with line handling on arrival.
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- Finally pulling into Cadiz, all the lines ready to be used to make the ship fast. The 2/C and 4/C standing by for the command to heave the messenger and pass the mooring lines ashore.
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