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.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Full Cleaning and Validation
On 1 September 2010, 2 divers validated and cleaned the ICON. Moderate amount of biofouling was noted and all insturments were cleaned and visually inspected. Everything was in visual working order. The CTD was deployed at 8:45am, the cleaning started at 10:15am, and the CTD was removed at 12:15pm.