Posts Tagged ‘Global Imringer Sea’
Light skies
The Irminger Sea Array is at ~60° N latitude, and we are just after the summer solstice. That means it doesn’t get very dark here. With overcast skies it can be hard to tell, but when the sun is out it can play havoc with your sense of time. These pictures are from 9:30 pm…
Read MoreChanging conditions
During our transit we are periodically stopping to conduct CTD casts in the Labrador Sea. We use these casts to test components and instruments that we will be deploying on the moorings in the Irminger Sea. We lower the CTD rosette to 3000 m depth to ensure components will work at that temperature and pressure,…
Read MoreSplicing operation
The Surface Mooring consists of a surface buoy, a seafloor anchor, and a mooring riser connecting the two. The riser is made up of numerous sections of wire rope, instrumentation frames and synthetic rope. As the team transits to the Irminger Sea Array, the mooring operations team is splicing together sections of the synthetic rope.
Read MoreSurface mooring ready
Deck Ops Lead Chris Basque secures the Irminger Surface Mooring as loading of the R/V Neil Armstrong continues for this year’s trip north to recover moorings and swap OSNAP moorings.
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