Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:06:34 +0000 From: "Sirovic, Ana" Subject: Message 06 Feb 12 2002, 13:30 66 degrees 13.81 S lat 68 degrees 31.86 W long (shelf around Adelaide Island) Air surface temperature: -1.0 degrees C Sea Surface Temperature (SST): 1.5 degrees C Wind speed: 10 knots, 342 degrees Air pressure: 978.5 mBar Hi! I've been a fair bit seasick in the last 24h so instead of a long message in which I'd try to explain how we recover our moorings, I'm just sending a picture of a recovery showing the mooring. The person all the way on the left is John and he's holding a hydrophone (you can't really see the hydrophone). Next to him is me holding a big yellow ball - one of 2 floats that keep the hydrophone suspended in the watercolumn, and the big yellow square is the mooring itself. The yellow part is a covering for the glass spheres (flotation), in the black tubes on the bottom there are the acoustic release and data logging system, batteries, and hard disks, and black tubes on the side contained weights while at the bottom. We had one recovery today (at 5 am) and are now steaming to the third mooring and should be there shortly. Also deployed today were one drifter and one float, but more about those at some less seasick time! Ana