Russell Ayers - 1/3/13 By lunch time the weather had lifted and the swells have reduce enough allowing speed to increase and further progress along our transect toward Hobart to be made, at 2pm we stop to do a CTD, CPR and XBT deployment, the sun even comes out for us! We divide up samples of various parameters, chlorophyll, oxygen, salt, etc. from the CTD, then filter and store them. XBT deployments go off without a hitch. And the Continuous plankton recorder (CTD) gets a change of silk and redeployed as we leave the station. Weather permitting; we expect to be at the next station tomorrow morning.