An interesting shot, but not what the team were after
So why were there no big waves?
There's no land between here and Kamchatka, 3,000 miles away 3000
And it's funny that the waves that arrive here
start off around Japan, around the east coast of Russia
And when a storm hits these places
it whips up the sea, generating swell
It's rather like throwing a pebble into a pool
The ripples radiate outwards which
when they reach land, make waves
So if the size of these waves was anything to go by
Japan and Russia were having some unusually mild winter weather
And that was more than you could say for Pohnpei
And there were still no big waves
The only good news was that the housing was still working
and remained watertight
despite being soundly tested both below and above the water
And then, when the team thought things couldn't get any worse
If conditions got any calmer here
we'd probably have small boys out sailing their toy boats out on this millpond!
I mean, we came for 12-foot barrelling waves
and we've got what a sort of gentle riffle at the moment
Time to check the swell charts
There was better news on the Russian front -
a big storm sending swell Pohnpei's way