Preparation of CTD water sampling rosette trip wires.

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Linder, Christopher

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Preparation of CTD water sampling rosette trip wires.

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Date

09/11/2007

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By late afternoon, Oden was nearing our first targeted site to search for hydrothermal vents on the Arctic seafloor. Mattias Peterson, master of the Oden, asked the scientists: If we get there at 1700 hours, when would you like to put in the first instrument? "1705 hours," said Hedy Edmonds, a geochemist from the University of Texas. "No," WHOI physical oceanographer Peter Winsor chimed in, tongue in cheek, "1701 hours." Suffice to say, they were eager to get started. It was time to prepare the CTD instrument. WHOI engineer George Tupper checked to see that all its trip wires worked and none of its bottles had leaks. "This data (from the Arctic Ocean) is too precious to lose even one sample because of a leaky bottle."

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