This site is for recording maintenance records of the La Parguera Marine Reserve NOAA ICON/CREWS station for data management purposes. Please update this blog whenever new operations are performed in the field, so that NOAA/AOML can coordinate data management efforts with the La Parguera ICON/CREWS station field efforts.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Complete Cleaning in March
Ah, it was great to get back in the water after a month on the sidelines. Today (Tuesday, March 1st, 2011), a complete cleaning (CTD validation, cleaned all sensors, chains, lines, and spar) was done at the CREWS Station in La Parguera, Puerto Rico, by Wessley Merten. The groundtruth validation sensor was placed on at 12:05 and was removed at 16:15. All surface and subsurface sensors were standing proud to the sea. All rigging, lines, baseplates, sensors, and the spar were cleaned which left the station looking great. The only hang up was that I was still physically unable to unscrew three of the four "screen holders" on the CTD's to replace the copper screens (any suggestions on how to get them loose?).