ITP 88 Deployment
ITP 88 was deployed as part of the first Ice-Based Observatory installed during JOIS 2015. Due to the thin ice conditions, reconnaissance operations took 2 days to locate a suitable ice floe and weather limited daylight conditions constraining the operations. Not including the time to reconnaissance, drill and select the ice floe, the deployment operation took 6 hours, including transportation of gear and personnel each way to the site. Ice analyses were also performed by others in the science party while the IBO deployment operations took place. Unfortunately, while transporting back some of the deployment gear to the ship at the end of the deployment, the helicopter sling load shifted so was released for safety, and the equipment was onto the floe damaging some of the gear.
More information and photos on the deployment operations are also available at: https://archives.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/www.whoi.edu/page.do@pid=147796.html
