We lost internet for a few hours and it just returned. We are running about 1 hour late and expect to deploy all of our instruments at about 2300. We will take a CTD profile for temperature, oxygen, microbes and zooplankton and then deploy the towbody for fish assessment with acoustics and then deploy the [...]
R/V Pelican in home port of Cocodrie, Louisiana
Deployed the scanfish and the acoustics instrumentation for a field testing at 1000. It took a long time for the ship to find a good rigging for all of the equipment. Discovered two problems with the fish acoustic equipment. 1) GPS unit of the ship not responding. After a lot of trial and error decided to [...]
Morning View off stern of R/V Pelican
AT SEA! 0030 on Tuesday our luggage did arrive. This was a huge thing since we had back some of our needed software and tools in some of the bags. We also did not like the idea of shopping for a weeks worth of clothes at k-mart. Tuesday morning we did a 3 vehicle convoy [...]