This site is for recording maintenance records of the Little Cayman Research Centre (Central Caribbean Marine Institute) & NOAA ICON/CREWS station for data management purposes. Please update this blog whenever new operations are performed in the field, so that NOAA/AOML can coordinate data management efforts with the Little Cayman ICON/CREWS field efforts.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Full cleaning and validation
Yesterday, 18 July 2010, a full cleaning and validation was completed. The validation CT was plugged in at 12:45. Cleaning was initiated by 3 divers at 14:15 and lasted for 40 minutes. All spectra lines, chains, and cables were inspected and confirmed to be in good working order. Copper screens were cleaned and replaced. There was a moderate to heavy fouling of the pylon from the algae build-up. The CT was then removed at 16:15.