CREWS Station Complete Cleaning in March

A complete cleaning (CTD validation, cleaned all sensors, chains, lines, and spar) at the CREWS Station in La Parguera, Puerto Rico, was done Friday, March 26th, 2010 by Wessley Merten and Duane Sanabria. The validation CTD was placed at 8:45am and was removed at 12:15pm. All surface and subsurface sensors were visibly intact. All rigging, lines, baseplates, sensors, and the spar are very clean. New screens were placed on the deep and shallow CTD's. Upon arrival to the station, a bird was perched atop one of the surface sensors that flew away shortly thereafter (see photos below).