Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been sharing bits of audio and talking about my trip at sea aboard the CSL Acadian, which happened in July – 10 days at sea, traveling between the Columbia River, Tacoma, British Columbia and San Francisco. It was a wonderful opportunity to see close up what life is like on a working cargo ship. Work goes on 24/7 – there is always someone on watch and working no matter what the hour. Ships also travel 24/7 except when they are in port – so even though they go at a rather slow speed (this ship at sea traveled a little over 13 nautical miles per hour), we reached San Francisco in two days at sea, because we were traveling continuously the entire time we were in transit.
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