Gallery Main Album » NO-HYPE II Launching a temperature mooring off La Jolla, Southern California. Launching the Avon to collect metals. Deploying an ADCP mooring. Deploying an ADCP mooring. The ADCP and pop-up buoy are hold only by the black hook. Claudio and Rafael working hard in the electronics van. Sunset and the Coronado Islands. Nadia and Fabian working with the net. Steve, Claudio and Geofff deploying the Ebara pump. Collecting metals from the Avon Jenn fixing plankton samples in the "Samples" van Manuel in the main lab. Geoff, Todd, Lydia and Jenn struggling with the Calvert net A portion of the night crew, Nadia, Jorge and Rafael waiting for another sunrise. Fernando, commanding the winch... Manuel, in the electronics van, controlling the CTD. "Bridge, can you give me the depth?" The R/V Robert Gordon Sproul. Running with a sample on a wet deck might be risky. (Fabian did not drop the sample, and it was quite well preserved.) Are we in shallow waters again? Actually this was a drifting Macrocystis. A portion of the night crew trying hard to smile after 10 h of night work and five foraging expeditions to the kitchen, I mean, the mess... Going back home. Manuel, Nadia, Jenn, Todd, Fernando, Lydia, Rafa, Jesús, Fabian and Claudio.