Profiler Mooring in the Water
IRMINGER: Another gray day in the Irminger Sea and another OOI mooring in the water. The Profiler Mooring consists of a top sphere at 150 m with upward- and downward looking bioacoustic sonar instruments, and a profiler which crawls up and down through the water column measuring conductivity, temperature & depth, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and water velocity. After spooling out the long shot of wire rope for the profiler to crawl along, the deck team puts a Yale grip on it to hold the load while they connect it to the next mooring component.
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Credit: Rebecca Travis © WHOI.
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Credit: Rebecca Travis © WHOI.
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Credit: Rebecca Travis © WHOI.
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Credit: Sheri N. White © WHOI.