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TODAY'S WEATHER
On our Way The Research Vessel Melville left the pier in Manzanillo, Mexico, at 0800 hours (8 a.m.) today on a hot and hazy morning. It moved to a fueling pier to take on more than 64,000 gallons of diesel fuel that the ship will need to operate during the our seven-week-long expedition. The fueling took about 6 hours to complete, and then we headed out to sea in mid-afternoon. The seas were calm. Pelicans and gulls were busy hunting their afternoon meal, diving into the ocean for the small fish that abound in these waters. The days just before departure are busy ones. Hundreds of boxes of equipment stowed on board in San Diego had to be unpacked, sorted, set up and secured, and the empty boxes stowed below. All this took about four days, with scientists and technicians pitching in to help. Andy Maffei of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) helped set up the shipboard SeaNet computer that we will use to send information and images back and forth between the ship and the shore-based Internet Web site that you are now looking at. Andy is one of the creators of the SeaNet system. [Click here to learn more about SeaNet] Will Sellers from WHOI’s Deep Submergence Operations Group also came to Manzanillo to help set up the Argo II and DSL-120 vehicles that we will be using to image and map the seafloor. [Click here to learn more about Argo or DSL-120]
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