Tag: Ocean Search
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Rain is bad for the sea?
We been in Lagos, Portugal now for over a week and the water in the marina has been about the same all the time. But today when we woke up the water was red. We have gotten quite a lot of rain in the last days,and now it’s all pouring into the sea, apparently. The…
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Oceansearch position tracking bug fixed!
As many of you have noticed the tracking and climate variable monitoring system went a little haywire as we crossed from east to west of Greenwich. The developers have fixed the problem now, so our last position is now accurate. However I can’t fix the handful of samples that were bad, since the problem occurred…
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Mounting research stuff and more
After the miserable weekend comes a much better start of the week. On Monday we got all cabling and piping done for the scientific instrument installation: We also got an AIS transponder mounted. It is mandatory for the IRC class in Gotland Runt. So now I can finally see myself on my own AIS plot:…
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Gearing up for climate monitoring
And it’s a lot of gear… We just finished this piece of equipment which will be responsible for the water analysis part of the Ocean Search climate monitoring project. The unit will be mounted in the bilge of the Journeyman, and run water analyses every hour. There will also be corresponding unit mounted for air…
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Workshopping: Ocean Climate Research
I am quite satisfied with how the Journeyman is working out as a workshop space. I knew from some tests we did last fall that there is enough separation between the deckhouse and the salon to allow two different sessions to go on in parallel. And now the walls work great as whiteboards as well!…