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From morning to dawn there are cleaning on every deck. The biologists have a lot to pack in boxes they are going to send by car to the university in Bergen. Still here is equipment from part 1 and 2 of this cruise, and everything has to be sent back to Bergen.

Terje is to be found anywhere, either with a vacuum cleaner or a washing stick in his hand. On the outdoor deck, the crew is in the process of making GO Sars presentable for the Nor-Fishing mess which will be held in Trondheim. Fortunately, the boat arrived Trondheim one day earlier than scheduled time, and the crew gets more time to prepare the boat for the next mission. The steward makes sure that everybody gets food and Haflidi are often on a trip to the bridge to have a talk with Chief Officer Kjell.

For all of us who have economy tickets with plane on Saturday, we will probably use the Friday-night to take a beer in Trondheim. Mats have booked a new ticket. He longs home to Bergen, where he haven't been since the exam at the beginning of June. There are a lot of travelling during the studies of geology, this he considers quite ok, but NOW he want to go home.

William found a little childish joy in creating a bottle-post. A real bottle-post, he has written a letter, copied all of the diary pages from this cruise and put it in a bottle. The conversation at the lunch table was devoted to this, and he really made fantasies about were it would end up. Well, who knows?

On the bridge Captain John H. Johnsen keeps guard and control the boat precisely where Haflidi want it to go. The last few days the boat only needed to move a few hundred meters though. John has been a sailor throughout his life. He grew up in a family that owned some boats in Vester氓len. When his father retired the mid eighties, John did not want to take over; he rather started his own career as a 1. Officer and later on as Captain. First John wanted to become a pilot, but he started his education as an Officer and Captain. Just finishing his education, the institute of sea-researching offered him a job as an Officer. John has been an Officer on fishing-vessels in Northern Norway, Officer on Michael Sars and the old GO Sars, and later Chief Officer and finally Captain for this new boat, G.O. Sars. He enjoy being at G.O. Sars very much.

The other leader on this boat is cruise leader Haflidi Haflidason. Haflidi is a professor at the Centre for Geobiology at the University of Bergen. We wondered if he had time for a talk, and to sum up this cruise.

Haflidi is very pleased with this year's cruise. The only minus was that we had the wrong software to the ROV, which resulted in no possibilities to map the sea floor using ROV multibeam. This has been a costly cruise; we have received 26 million nok in total support of which 60% came from the oil and gas industry and the rest from the Research Council. The main goal for this cruise has been to get the different technical groups to work together toward a common goal. As to map the area for the gas deposits.

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