Short video clip of a heavy chop in Glacier Bay in October 2008. I was on the 29' landing craft Capelin for an oceanographic sampling cruise, and the wind came up quickly. Went from a 1' chop to 6' over 5 minutes. We had motor trouble right after I took this clip, so we limped into Queen Inlet and spend the night at anchor in front of a glacial stream, about 40 miles up-bay from Park HQ, and I listened to small icebergs scraping along the hull all night. The Park sent up a marine mechanic the next morning, and he had us going within an hour or so. We didn't even have to eat the weakest of us...
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