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FS Nordmark

Lena’s research vessel in Book 1, captained by Kai Sörensen

The FS Nordmark is the research vessel that takes Lena Voss into the North Atlantic in Book 1: 78 meters long, a flat hull, white with a blue stripe, rust in the welds, and more antennas on the superstructure than a ship this size needs. A workhorse. The captain is Kai Sörensen, and there are sixteen people on board. The mission: verify measurement data on the Atlantic overturning circulation, four to six weeks, with Lena as chief scientist. The Nordmark casts off at 10 p.m. On board, there are customs of its own: on Sundays there’s cake, even in a storm.

First encounter

• First noticed: “The FS Nordmark was not a beautiful ship.”
• Object: the old OCEANUS probe that Mats Reimers calibrates in the rear lab container

Connected to

• Lena VossOceanographer at the ICRU in Hamburg, following a falling line
• Kai SörensenFS Nordmark captain, eight years without a word to Lena
• Mats ReimersFS Nordmark systems technician who knows the old OCEANUS probe
• Yuki TanakaClimate data analyst aboard the FS Nordmark, double-checks everything
• Niklas BrennerYoung marine geologist on board, keeps the handwritten equipment log
• BroderCook on the FS Nordmark; on Sundays there’s cake
• ThodeShip’s doctor on the FS Nordmark, photographs fish
• KielWhere the Nordmark’s voyage begins
• The North AtlanticThe current’s ocean and Lena’s study area in Book 1
• ICRU HamburgLena’s institute in Hamburg, looking out over the Elbe
• FS VindelThe research vessel of the night Lukas died

Spoiler-free. This describes the starting point of the book named, without its major twists or resolutions.