In all of the turtle excitement yesterday, I forgot to mention that yesterday was actually the 42 birthday of the R/V Melville. Aside from being the oldest running ship in the national oceanographic university system, and being the ship on which King Kong was filmed, I have a few other fun facts that I hope you will enjoy. The Melville has traveled 1,260,000 miles using 30,660,000 gallons of fuel! The Melville has also served over 7500 scientists and over 1,839,50 meals, not to mention approximately 14 fish have been caught. Just kidding about the fish...they lost count of the real number ages ago, we've had a night or two with way more than 14.