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Ocean Veritas – Calibrating the Pinger
This morning we all got a major treat: we got to sleep in. The team hard at work processing sediment samples As you can see from the picture, we’ve been working hard. We finished sampling yesterday...
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Pisces – How does that thing work, anyway?
We continued our core sampling today. During a break in operations, J.P. Walsh of East Carolina University explained how the sampling device works. Basically what it consists of is a frame with corers...
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Ocean Veritas – Safety Drills and Samples
Yesterday we took care of some slow but necessary business: drills. We completed “fire” and “man overboard” drills yesterday, where we learned what to do when anything bad happens: go to the second...
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Pisces – the Tow-Cam
Last night, we deployed a tow camera to take photos of the sea floor to look for any evidence of oil that may have settled there, and for hydrocarbon seeps. Ken Feldman, a contractor working for Woods...
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