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| 1. Mooring “C”. The anchor and buoyant floats are the first to be lowered into the ocean. |
| 2. Mooring “C”. The anchor and buoyant floats are the first to be lowered into the ocean. |
3. McLane Moored Profiler attached to the mooring wire and ready to measure ocean currents and seawater temperature and salinity from 50 to 2000 meters depth with a resolution of approximately 1 meter.
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| 4. The final operations of the mooring deployment. Seconds later the top flotation sphere was released and submerged. With the mooring anchor at the bottom, the sphere is at 46-meter depth, keeping the mooring wire taut and allowing the profiler to travel up and down along the wire while collecting oceanic data. |
| 5. Barren snow-covered icefloe. |
| 6. Caravan for buoy deployment. |
| 7. Drilling a 10” hole through the 240 cm thick icefloe using an ice auger can be a laborious and time consuming activity. |
| 8. Drilling a 10” hole through the 240 cm thick icefloe using an ice auger can be a laborious and time consuming activity. |
| 9. Being hoisted back to the ship. |
| 10. Landed on an ice floe to check its thickness during the last sea ice reconnaissance flight (left to right: Scott Payment, Kiyoshi Hatakeyama, and Adrian Godin). |
| 11. Seascape changes rapidly from wide areas of open water to 100% ice concentration conditions. |
| 12. Seascape changes rapidly from wide areas of open water to 100% ice concentration conditions. |
