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ITP 17 Overview

Deployment Location: 9/15/2007, 3:04 UTC at 86° 1.8’N, 105° 4.6’E

Last Location: 6/28/2009, 20:00 UTC at 63° 38.3’ N, 20° 22.4’ W

Duration: 653 days

Distance Traveled: 12,979 km

Number of profiles: 235 in 36 days (454 attempted in 115 days)

Other instruments: none

ITP17 was deployed on a 1.7 m thick icefloe in the Transpolar Drift from the Russian icebreaker "Akademik Federov" in collaboration with the European Union DAMOCLES Program. The ITP was scheduled for a rapid sampling schedule of 3 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day, but became progressively hampered by electronic and mechanical problems so that the profiler could not move from the bottom stop after 5 weeks.  The surface float seems to have been covered by ice at 87°N on December 31, 2007, when it continued to call in but was unable to acquire GPS locations until it resurfaced in the East Greenland Sea near 75°N in July 2008, then drifted into the Irminger Sea until March 2009 when it was removed to Iceland.

Shortly after the last ITP deployment of the 2007 IPY summer season, the surface package of ITP 17 already has a light dusting of snow as Segey Lesenkov and Anatoly Kleyn look on. (John Kemp)
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