Location: The open ocean
Today, we continued the over-rotation schedule of 3 hours on and 6 hours off. For the first half of the day, there was nothing spectacular to report. Right after lunch, we hooked a fish, and in a matter of seconds, it spooled the line, actually causing it to smoke a little. With the realization that the fish must have been huge came the thought that we were over the second deepest trench in any ocean – the Tonga Trench. The Tonga Trench is over 6 miles deep! Around 1835, a single humpback whale came to the surface, took a few breaths, and disappeared. The things one sees in the middle of the ocean are amazing.