Should be arriving near Hainan Island today and then it’s time for covid test number 3. All tests have been negative so far and no one else had been onboard since sailing from Malaysia to China but they just wanna test test test….. The joys of work 
Work
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Now sitting just off the coast of Hainan Island next to a place called Sanya which is apparently quite a fancy resort city but we’ve no chance of getting ashore. Had our 3rd covid tests in as many weeks, I think I’m now getting used to having sticks rammed up my nose and down my throat.
Only been away almost a month and still to start the project, should be sailing to the job site tomorrow sometime for prep and subsea tests then it’s commence with pipelay.
And this morning’s 6am view
Interesting clouds this morning, what are they testing in the South China sea 
Holy crap. Either way that’s alarming. That’s one hell of an updraft 
It’s circular: a water spout trying to form?
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Playing with my phone camera, a wee time lapse today
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You go down in that?
Negative, that’s a Remotely Operated Vehicle
Aye there’s plenty of squeeze at 1400m below 
Some wildlife shots
Weird lobster thing
Long nose Chimaera, apparently it’s closest relation is a shark…
Jogort Pipe looks good too! 
So who in your company IDs all the these bizarre creatures? Or is it just anyone Googling?
Google lens came up with “Weird lobster ’hing”? I may come to like our new AI overlords after all.
Haha didn’t try it on the weird lobster, worked on the long nose fish though.
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@Jogort Do you do this?
Also, Jupiter and Saturn (with rings clearly visible) are appearing in night sky (in Northern Hemisphere anyway), close to each other.