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Twin Otter Planes packed with ice buoys and other equipment.

Twin Otter Planes packed with ice buoys and other equipment.
Twin Otter Planes packed with ice buoys and other equipment.
Twin Otter Planes packed with ice buoys and other equipment.
Twin Otter Planes packed with ice buoys and other equipment.
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Koski, Peter
Twin Otter Planes packed with ice buoys and other equipment.
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05/09/2008
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 52, No. 2, pg. 50:
WHOI engineers packed two planes full of buoys, cables, and other equipment for a flight from Banks Island onto the Arctic Ocean ice pack. They installed eight buoys spaced across 250 miles of ice to test an experimental communications system.
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Twin Otter planes are packed full of buoys, cables, and other equipment for flights from Banks Island north of Canada onto the Arctic Ocean ice pack. The planes carry 2,000 pounds, and the pilot, co-pilot, mechanic, and WHOI engineers John Kemp and Peter Koski accounted for half of that. They carried out a WHOI engineering team's experiment led by Lee Freitag to develop a new acoustic communications system for use under sea ice. The system takes advantage of a naturally occurring sound channel within the Arctic Ocean that allows autonomous vehicles to use sound signals to communicate and navigate over long distances under the ice.
Oceanus online caption:
Twin Otter planes were packed full of buoys, cables, and other equipment for flights from Banks Island onto the ice. The planes carry 2,000 pounds--the pilot, co-pilot, mechanic, and WHOI engineers John Kemp and Peter Koski accounted for half of that. Flights included re-fueling on the ice. Pilots planned for refueling, placing 55-gallong drums of fuel at locations on the ice in advance and marking them for view from the air.
Photo by Peter Koski
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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