Very glad they’re safe, and I hope they’re out by now. We are in PNG, and were on the liveaboard Oceania when Mawar was gathering force. Although the typhoon was ~1000 miles north of the Bismarck Sea, we had moderate wind and higher-than-expected seas (meaning, 2-3’ swells), and we understand that the Febrina, which was to our north in the Witu Islands, had quite a rocky day and night as the storm drew energy from the region. Walindi Resort had very high winds overnight. Once the typhoon started to move northwesterly, things returned to normal—it’s the doldrums here, and the sea is a mirror—although visibility was below normal at many sites for the duration; it still is. I showed a drop of about two degrees Fahrenheit in a two-day period. An impressive demonstration of the extended impact of a massive storm even here; I can’t really imagine being in its path.