March 14th, 2011: Successful AWAC Deployment

We finally got a sunny warm balmy day, which means we all sweated the day away.  It was definitely nice not to have to worry about what was going to get wet and what wasn’t.   

Mark and I finished setting up our wave and current sensor so that we could deploy it.  We had to get all the lead ready to hold it down in the water and then drill some holes so that we could stake it in the ground to make sure it stayed put.  After everything was ready, we took off to the deployment location.  Everything went very smoothly getting it all in the water and setting it up.   The best way to describe this is imagine doing whatever your job was today underwater. 

We made a second dive along a beautiful wall of coral, fish and other sea life to install one of the last pressure sensors for this trip. 

The Hawaii and Scripps groups went to the other side of the island to deploy a similar wave and current sensor on the reef and a couple more wave sensors at other locations.  They also ran REMUS missions to test out a couple of new devices to look at fish schools and bottom types.  Another successful day in Palau!

Ian