Journal of the sixtysixth day on board

7th July, 1999

Angelo Mojetta the famous marine biologist with whom we shared many interesting experiences in Ionian Sea off Capo Spartivento last May, is back on board. During those few days we met dolphins, grampi, turtles and above all a calm sea. Sometimes the water was so still it looked like glass.

Time 17,00
We are west of Lampione - a rock that rises from the centre of the Mediterranean. You can only sea a lighthouse, some seagulls, some sheerwaters and beautiful drinking water.
There is little wind and the sea anchor is not working well. We often place ourselves on one side and take pleasure rocking the boat (it's only a joke obviously!).
We hardly walk or sit up straight. We get tired of being quiet then talking, counting then making phone calls. It's uncomfortable to chum, to scan the horizon and look for a fin in the monitor of the underwater camera.
Mountain peaks and edelweiss' come into mind and … every now and then one of us in the expedition comes out with a “I've had enough of the sea. Next time I'm going to the mountains to look for woolly mammoths!"