Welcome back to our blog! As of yesterday morning, we are
back at sea and shortly we will resume acquiring 3D data. The repairs to the
engine were more difficult than originally thought. We had the Rolls Royce
engineers with us for the whole time, working with our fine engineers on the
ship. You may not know that Rolls Royce makes really big engines like those in
the Langseth. They worked to clean out the engine, ordered a number of parts,
and the parts gradually arrived in Vigo. The engine was reassembled and tested
at the dock. It worked again!
We sailed from Vigo at 0700 on 15 July with a partially new
science team. Several people left the ship because they had conflicts with the
extended cruise. They were Donna, Tim, Cesar, Mari, Brian, Steve, Luke,
Marianne, Miguel, and Toby. Remaining were Dale, James, Raj, and Sarah. We
could hardly do with a science team of four, so we recruited six newcomers.
They are Natalie Accardo (Lamont), Milena Marjonovic (Lamont), Gaye Bayrakci
(Southampton), Joao Pedro Tauscheck Zielinski (Madrid), Tessa Gregory
(Southampton), and Katherine Coates (Southampton). We will try to get photos
and bios up shortly.
We are deploying the seismic gear now. We have two streamers
out and the third almost out. We hope to begin acquisition in the morning.
We are all excited about continuing our cruise and
completing the 3D survey.
Dale Sawyer
Rice University
