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COME HERE WATSON, I NEED YOU—“On every cruise, there has to be at least one thing that goes wrong,” said WHOI scientist Rocky Geyer, “and for us, this is the one thing.” Three instrument tripods that were placed in high-traffic areas did not have surface buoys. Instead, buoys were tethered to a recovery line and submerged with the tripods. The buoys would float to the surface when they received a series of specific acoustic pings, like a telephone tone. Then the recovery line could be snagged and the tripod winched to the surface. Here, postdoctoral scholar Malcolm Scully holds a transmitter over the side to trip the acoustic release. After several failed attempts to trip the release on one of the tripods WHOI physical oceanographer Jim Lerczak (pointing) and Geyer decided to drag for the tripod.
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Posted: May 22, 2013
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