And we're back

Well not really back, but we have internet again. The weather has been sketchy most of the past few days. We got all of the samples that we wanted at Papa (ocean station papa), as did most of the others. But nearly every cast was questionable until the minute we had it in the water. It takes the rosette about 2 hours to get down to 4000m and another 2 hours to get back up, so the boat has to maintain a very tight position for at least 4 hours. Which isn't easy when the wind is somewhere between 20 and 30 knots.
We we going to try to pick up some of the stations that we skipped getting out to Papa, but the weather has been too rough still. We've only gotten 3 the 7 that we were trying for.
I haven't been sea sick at all which is good but I'm still tried. It's hard to sleep when every 10-15 minutes a big wave sends you rolling across the bed into the wall. As I look out the port hole for a few seconds all I'll see is water, then we roll back over and only see sky, then only water...