Day 4: Question of the Day
What is the name of the ship? What did you do today? What samples are you trying to obtain?
-Xavier Gervacio
-The name of the Ship is- R/V Melville. R/V stands for research vessel.
-Today we set two of the three mooring lines. Mooring lines are strands of cable and chain that connect various instruments that will record data while submerged hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean. The two lines were dropped in Eel canyon. The length of the lines were roughly 650 meters and 1355 meters.
-On this trip we are not necessarily collecting samples but rather data on internal waves.
Deploying top float and satellite beacon
Deploying cable
Scientist Jonathan Nash and Chief scientist Amy Waterhouse attaching temperature sensors to the mooring line
Deploying a ADCP
Chief scientist Ruth Musgrave operating the "A" frame
Preparing to drop the anchor
Vanessa Crandell-Beck and Alfredo Wetzel hard at work
What about my cookies?
ReplyDeleteDont worry X we get cookies every other day ;) i got you
DeleteThat's lovely!
ReplyDeleteThats great Jonathan ENJOY IT :)
ReplyDeletelook like you guys are doing construction
ReplyDeleteLooks Like your having a Blast!
ReplyDeleteI really am though Patttttttticakeslicious! this is an amazing expirence
DeleteThis seems really fun and exciting. This is something that I should have did too.
ReplyDeletewhat do you have to do daily.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had went. Seems like an amazing experience.
ReplyDeleteThat Sounds Cool
ReplyDeletethat machine looks pretty dangerous
ReplyDeleteWhat is the weight of that machinery? 0:
ReplyDeleteThat ship must be well proportioned in buoyancy in order to be that stable.
the ship is a dynamic positioning almost 300 ft tank. we have the ability to lift 3000 pounds and not feel a thing the small winch can lift 1000 lbs alone, so were safe.
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