Last night we crossed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. We've entered the trades, and are steaming at about 13kts into ~15kts of wind and 2m seas. Bit choppy onboard, and the decks are now covered in salt spray. Tomorrow will be our first day of buoy ops, first deploying a subsurface hydrophone mooring, then recovering one of the Atlas moorings. The two buoys seen in the above picture will then be deployed side-by-side to allow for an intercomparison of the data collected by the old (ATLAS) and new (TFLEX) buoys.
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