ITP29 Overview
Deployment Location: 8/31/2008, 02:00 UTC at 79° 30.0’N, 177° 18.3’W
Last Location: 8/26/2011, 23:09 UTC at 58° 24.5’ N, 50°50.9’ W
Duration: 1091 days
Distance Traveled: 13,321 km
Number of profiles: 1489 in 745 days
Other instruments: none
ITP 29 was deployed on a 2.1 m icefloe in the Transpolar Drift from the Russian Research Vessel Akademik Federov. The ITP included a dissolved oxygen sensor and operated on a standard sampling schedule of 2 one-way profiles between 7 and 760 m depth each day.
Kris Newhall, Sergey Unovidov and Jeff Pietro pose with ITP 29 shortly after successfully accomplishing the first of four ITP deployments from the Akademik Federov in 2008.