Location: Disko Bay
Longitude:53 53.05 W
Latitude:68 59.304 N
Conditions: Ahhhhh! Nice.
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| Photo courtesy of Lance Wills. |
Finally, the bad weather seems to have subsided for now at least. Today, we saw operations begin in Disko Bay with the first CTD of the mission at DKM_08. Ring nets were also deployed along with CTD's at stations across the Disko Bay channel, The weather today was nothing short of spectacular. As advertised, the ship was circled by ice bergs. Mountainous peaks, mixed with glacial valleys loomed large in the distance. It was a perfect day for us to learn about how the Atlantis crew goes about CTD operations on Atlantis. Their operations are impressive and I'll go through them at length another time.
The day was a success and there were very few technical challenges. The crew of the Atlantis walked us through their process and made us feel right at home. Thank you everyone.
As an aside, during the evening there was a bright display of northern lights off the port side of the ship. At times they lit up the sky from horizon to horizon. I tried to take some photos and I've attached the best of what I could produce.
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| Station occupations in Disko Bay included CTD's at DKM_08, DKM_06, DKM_04 and DKM_02 and ring nets at DKM_04 and DKM_06. |
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| Saw some northern lights tonight. These buggers are hard to photograph on a rolling ship but worth the effort. |
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| Our second CTD deployment. Steve handles it in style. |
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| Yay, icebergs. The bridge was not so happy to see them though, I guess they sink boats sometimes;) |
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