The Office
There is nothing outside worth taking a picture of right now. Just waves, as far as the eye can see. No land, no ice, just water.
So I’ve taken a photo of my office. I imagine it looks like most offices (maybe a few more monitors than most), but my laptop is duct-taped to the desk so it doesn’t slide around, and the desk chair does not have wheels, and it spins back and forth as the boat rocks.
We’ve crossed 60 degrees south while I slept last evening. I think we are leaving the Pacific and entering the Southern Ocean because the water temperature has recently dropped to around 3C from 7C.
For the past few days we’ve switched from unpacking to assembly and test. We’ve put together a few of the various instruments and sensor packages we want to deploy, and have started testing them bit by bit. There is a Conductivity / Temperature / Depth profiler (CTD) that gets lowered and pulled back up off the back of the boat. There are drifters which are just suitcases full of batteries to power GPS and an Iridium modem to relay the location of the drifters back home. There are deep-sea buoys we will sink to the bottom of the sea, and ice-based inverted buoys too, hanging off an ice-floe into the water below.
More on these later as we deploy them…
lat: -61.0240, lon: -86:7565
Note: posted out of order.
