{"id":536300,"date":"2025-05-23T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=536300"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:53:57","slug":"cruise-update-skq202511s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/cruise-update-skq202511s\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruise Update \u2013 SKQ202511S (May 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"490\">Following a smooth transit, the R\/V <em data-start=\"164\" data-end=\"174\">Sikuliaq<\/em> arrived early Thursday at the NOAA PMEL 2025 mooring site, about 4 nm east of the target location. After a pre-op briefing and GAR risk assessment, conditions were deemed safe, and the mooring\u2014with its newly installed FDCHP sensor\u2014was successfully deployed around 08:45. The anchor followed three hours later.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"492\" data-end=\"858\">A 500m CTD cast was completed before the ship transited ~20 nm southwest to the UW Waverider 2025 site. Despite slightly rougher seas (9\u201311 ft), forecasts allowed for continued operations. After prepping ~4,200 m of synthetic line and a deck \u201ctoolbox\u201d talk, the Waverider buoy was deployed at 16:30, with all components in place and the anchor deployed by 19:30.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"860\" data-end=\"951\">Completed:<br data-start=\"874\" data-end=\"877\" \/>\u2714 NOAA PMEL 2025 mooring<br data-start=\"901\" data-end=\"904\" \/>\u2714 500m CTD cast<br data-start=\"919\" data-end=\"922\" \/>\u2714 UW Waverider 2025 mooring<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"953\" data-end=\"1026\">Next up: overnight transit to the glider box for profiler and glider ops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a smooth transit, the R\/V Sikuliaq arrived early Thursday at the NOAA PMEL 2025 mooring site, about 4 nm east of the target location. After a pre-op briefing and GAR risk assessment, conditions were deemed safe, and the mooring\u2014with its newly installed FDCHP sensor\u2014was successfully deployed around 08:45. The anchor followed three hours later.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":533914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[317],"tags":[316,320,321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536306,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536300\/revisions\/536306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}