ITP 116 Overview
Deployment Location: 8/21/2019, 9:00 UTC at 89° 59.4’N, 64° 7.7’W
Recovered Location: 8/2/2022 01:04 UTC at 62° 33.1’ N, 6° 0.8’E
Duration: 902 days
Distance Travelled: 18,726 km
Number of profiles: 529 in 132 days
Other instruments: SIMBA
ITP116 was deployed on a 1.55 m ice floe in the Transpolar Drift in collaboration with the Coordinated Arctic Acoustic Thermometry Experiment (CAATEX) from the NoCGV Svalbard. The ITP operated on a fast sampling schedule of 4 one-way profiles between 5 and 760 m depth each day.
Eighteen months later, ITP 116 surface package was found on the island of Vigra in Norway and returned to WHOI.
Deployment
ITP 116 as deployed near the North Pole in August 2019 with the NoCGV Svalbard in the background. (Photo by Espen Storheim)
ITP 116 surface package discovered beached in Norway in 2022. (Photo by Viggo Heimland)