Maintenance Update

On Friday, March 3rd, I made an inspection of the pylon at Salt River and made the following observations. The pylon was visually inspected both above and below the water. All underwter instruments and cables appeared to be in tact with no apparent damage. The antenna and tower were also in good condition. I cleaned the light sensor as well.

After the inspection, we were about two miles off shore, between the pylon and Christiansted harbor when we sighted the tremendous splash of water from a Humpback whale breechng the water. The whale made a surface dive and we observed the fluke rise out of the water. The whale then rolled on it's back and waved it's pectoral fins back and forth above the surface. It was quite a display.

After trying to take multiple photographs of the incident with my cell phone, I realized that in my great excitement, I was pushing the wrong button. Therefore, no photo evidence of the event.

Cheers,
Signing for David (Sue)

station not transmitting

The station stopped reporting for unknown reasons some time after 2pm, February 23rd, EST. We're looking into the problem.

cheers, Jim

Service Trip

The instruments were cleaned and all equipment appeared to be in working order.

Dave Ward

Service

The instruments were cleaned and all equipment appeared to be in working order.

Dave Ward.

Additional Notes for Nov 30 trip

Distance between underwater BIC (Radiometer) and Presure sensor on CTD: 83 cm

Groundtruthing CT swapped- removed FSI s/n 1486d-23oct01

Deployed:
Anemometers
S/N 53517
S/N 53518
BIC Underwater
S/N 2104U 1039
CTD
S/N 1641 31 AUG 05

SRVI1 Maintenance Trip Report

Executive summary for Maintenance Trip, Nov 28 - Dec 2, 2005

• Equipment Replacement-
• Broken off lightning brush replaced.
• Wind Birds (Anemometers) and magnetic compasses replaced.
• CT (Conductivity-Temperature) groundtruth instrument replaced.
• CTD (Cond/Temp/Depth) instrument replaced.
• Surface Irradiometer (BIC) replaced.
• Underwater Irradiometer (BIC) replaced.
• Satellite Transmitter replaced.
• Cables for all replaced instruments also replaced.
  

Visited potential site for ICON deployment on west end of island.
Discussed performing SRVI1 structure upgrade at Columbus Cove/Salt River
marina with marina.

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Louis Florit, Research Associate
University of Miami/CIMAS
NOAA/Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory
4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Phone:  (305) 361-4445

Coral colors

Dave Ward reports that in the last 10 days to two weeks the colors have started returning to the corals. Maintenance trip is scheduled for today.

Jim Hendee