We had to abandon our plans to stop at Elephant Island today because of sea conditions. 5+ meter swells made it impossible to launch the Zodiacs without sending their passengers into the ocean. The video above was filmed from the third-floor deck as a point of calibration. The swells were so bad that some onboard activities had to be cancelled or postponed. Alternatively, iceberg watching became quite popular. The one pictured below is the front end of an iceberg easily ten times the length of our ship and just as tall. We are now sailing directly to protected waters off the Antarctic Peninsula.