I am so sorry that I didn't put up a post yesterday. I just wasn't able to sit down and make it happen. So I guess I will start out this post with yesterday.
We got to sleep in a little bit, which was nice, and then we headed to the down towards the port to visit the whale museum. Ulsan used to be a very large whaling community, and this museum was dedicated to that. We saw some of the old whaling vessels which was interesting to see. Then we went to another building that had an aquarium that had dolphins! We got there a little before their feeding time, which included the dolphins doing some tricks and jumps. It was cool to watch them!
A view from the museum. In the background you can see a crane from HHI's offshore division
Here is one of the dolphins!
After that we got some lunch and then headed to the beach. It being such a cloudy/rainy/cool day, the beach was pretty much empty. Which was good and bad; good that we had the beach more or less to ourselves, but bad because it was cloudy/rainy/cool. We still managed to have a pretty good time though!
Here is our group on the beach. It was really cloudy and windy!
The evening finished with an awesome dinner of shabu shabu (I think thats how it's spelled. Thats how it sounds at least). This was the same place that we had dinner the very first night. It was nice to be going back there, but it was kind of sad to know that our trip is winding down.
So today was pretty exciting, we were up early and then we got on the bus to take a three hour trip to KRISO, which is the Korean Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering. It is a large facility that is dedicated to creating engineering solutions to better shipbuilding across the world. They have some pretty cool things that we got to visit: a tow tank, an offshore environmental basin, a couple of cavitation tunnels, a bridge simulator that is much bigger than the one Samsung has, and they have an ice tank. Many places have tow tanks, but not too many places have all of these facilities. It was a really neat place to see.
We then made the three hour trip back to Ulsan, and then went out to a nice dinner! Now we are working on a final presentation that summarizes our three weeks. It's weird how fast this trip is winding down! We are all getting excited to be back stateside, but saying goodbye isn't going to be easy. Our final day is tomorrow, so look forward to one last post soon!
- Jake
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