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, August 05, 2011
Full Clean and Validation
Today, 5 August 2011 we completed a full clean and validation of the ICON station. 3 divers cleaned and scrubbed the spectra lines, chains, pins and shackles. The instruments were also cleaned and looked in good order. There was low bio-fouling on the station compared to other months. The Ground Truth Sensor was installed at 7:50, cleaning started at 9:35 and finished around 11:30. The GT sensor was then removed at around 1:45. Orientation has not changed.