Remember the Sloop John-B
Trip Start
Jun 16, 2007
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Trip End
Sep 26, 2007
Maimi, Florida
Saturday, August 11, 2007
The multibeam systems that we are using on this job are extremely rare. There are only a handfull of Reson 8150's in the world and replacement parts had to be ordered from the main office in Denmark. This gave us three days to check out South Beach, Miami and quench our thirsts in the bars.
We got on Travelocity and split a couple rooms between seven guys so it was pretty cheap. That night we took Maimi by storm. Randomly, Zach Wallmark, they guy who played my senior project with me just happened to be living in South Beach about three blocks from where we had our hotel reservations so I called him up and we had a nice dinner on the company and he left before the night got really dubocherious. We did shots in the hotel bar, Tyler was too drunk to stand up so we put him to bed, not long after that I crashed out. I woke up a few hours later because people were making a ruckus in the room. Tyler had somehow woken up and was still drinking, turns out the majority of the crew closed out the bar at 6am. The morning was an interesting scene. Lots of headaches and groaning for water, a few glances at the camera and we realized that there were large gaps in the night that were photographed but nobody remembers them. I'm glad I went to sleep when I did. Tyler was in the most serious pain I think I've seen ever. I almost feel bad about asking if he wanted a raw bacon sandwich on a bed of eggshells with a glass of mayo..... collectively the guys threw up all over South Beach.
Tyler, Donny, and the client rep Dhuran went back to the boat that night. Brian the Geo, Matt the party chief, and I decided to stay one more night. We hit the clubs the second night and woke up with slightly less terrible headaches. Our ride back to the boat flaked out so we were forced to stay a third night. We took it easy the third night so our heads wouldn't be spinning when we woke up the next morning. Mission successful: though we had queasy stomachs and were desperately in need of water, we took South Beach by storm and never looked back. A nice place to visit, but I couldn't afford and would never want to live there. If I could sum south beach Miami in 5 words or less I would say "The streets smell like feces" or "Elevation doesn't encourage water drainage". At least that was my basic overall impression. There is also a happening nightlife intertwined with an old person repository. The extremely rich, extremely old, extremely Miami, I never thought I would be happy to be back aboard the Southern Relentless.
Back in action with a working multibeam, maybe we will finally get away from US waters this time.... Oh, what's that you say? A hurricane? Headed exactly where we are going at exactly the time we plan on being there? Sure, I'm game....
Enter Hurricane Dean:
