Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Monday November 26 María, Aníbal and I made almost!! complete cleaning station (three chains were missing for cleaning). We started cleaning up at 7:30 - 9:30 am (sensors) and part of center pole. Then at 9:30 am I connected the CTD, but we had to keep working on cleaning the station due it was very dirty (cleaning chains and finish the central pole). We completed cleaning at 12md.  I picked up the CTD at 2:30 pm.

The sensors were covered with green, red encrusting algae and filamentous algae. The chains and the central column were totally covered in Bivalves, sponges, corals, etc.  Our next visit is scheduled for the week of 10 to 14 December.