Hybrid Profiler Mooring Recovered

STATION PAPA: The Station Papa moorings are replaced on a yearly schedule.  Here the OOI-CGSN team recovers the Hybrid Profiler Mooring. The yellow vehicle seen on the mooring wire is a Wire-Following Profiler (WFP).  The vehicle moves up and down the wire sampling the water column for salinity, temperature, pressure,  dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll, and current velocity.  In addition to the telemetered data, following recovery all the instrument data is downloaded and made available on the OOI Data Explorer site.

Credit: Dee Emrich © WHOI.

Credit: Dee Emrich © WHOI.

Credit: Dee Emrich © WHOI.