ITP 107 Recovery
The following year, ITP 107 was recovered during JOIS 2019 since the profiler was no longer climbing the wire. On the morning of the recovery using a recent location, the buoy was spotted and hooked by personnel lowered in a manbasket. Next the buoy was hauled out of the water using a ship’s winch and the load transferred to the crane. When the buoy SAMI and microcat were recovered, the wire was transferred to the ship’s capstan and the 790 m of wire were hauled while one deck hand kept back tension directly behind the capstan and two other deck hands received the wire and coiled it into a loop on deck roughly the size of the ITP reel. Soon the was ITP bobbing around at the surface and was brought on deck sitting on the bumper above the anchor. It was noted as ITP came out of water that the upper idler wheel spring had broke most likely when ITP107 dragged over the North Wind Ridge earlier that year.
More information and photos on the recovery operations are also available at: https://archives.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/www.whoi.edu/page.do@pid=165436.html
