ITP59 Deployment Operations

ITP 59 was first attempted to be deployed in 2012, but due to a communications problem with the profiler, was immediately recovered and returned to WHOI. The surface unit was found to have a damaged controller board which was replaced and the system retested in the spring of 2013. It became the second ITP system deployed during the 2013 NABOS cruise on the Federov.

The deployment team installed the O-Buoy before the ITP. (Ilona Goszczko)

With the ITP successfully deployed and the profiler communicating, Peter Keen and Carlton Rauschenberg disassemble the tripod. (Steve Lambert)

Following the ITP deployment, John Kemp and Peter Keen deploy the up-tempo buoy at a good distance from the ITP so that the tethers would not tangle. (Steve Lambert)

Peter Keen, Steve Lambert, Carlton Rauschenberg, and John Kemp pose with ITP59 surface package upon completion of all deployment operations. The O-Buoy to the left had a camera trained on the ITP. (Courtesy of Steve Lambert)