What is your name? Gavin Eppard

What is your job on the ship? Mechanical Technician (MT) and Alvin Group Pilot in Training (PIT)

How long have you worked on Atlantis? One year and six months

Where are you from? California

What is the most unusual thing you have seen on a cruise? The outline of dolphins riding the bow wave at night illuminated by bioluminescence.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten? Iguana

What is the scariest thing that has ever happened to you? Driving a scooter in Bermuda. Dangerous!

If you didn’t have this job, what would be your next job of choice? Run my own tree-house hotel.

What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to endure? 67 days at sea with no land in sight — or my first equator crossing.

Where’s the coolest place you have ever been? Why? The Galápagos Islands — the animals above and below.