9. Today's the day....or isn't the day. Despite the fact that the ship's GPS is showing a position of 168 degrees west, the international geographical authorities deem that the international date line actually passes through this line of longitude rather than at 180W, thus at midnight, we jumped from Tuesday April 9 to Thursday April 11. Technically the date line has been reached and instead of being 12 hours behind Greenwich, we are now 12 hours ahead. Around a dozen people aboard have missed their birthday. Talk about time travelling. On the other hand, at 12.45pm today we will be crossing the equator. However, and somewhat surprisingly, there has been no announcement of King Neptune making his customary appearance. Maybe he couldn't afford the fare, although we've now just heard he'll be arriving tomorrow instead. All
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