Sunday, June 20, 2010

Complete cleaning and validation

The validation censor was deployed at 10:45 on Friday, June 18th. Following the protocol, it was allowed to sit and hang at the 'shallow' CTD depth, full cleaning was initiated at 12:15, and the censor was then removed at 14:30.

Equipment was cleaned properly and all cables, spectra lines, and instruments were inspected. Besides the pylon sitting slightly skewed (as it was the day of its installation), everything is in good condition.