The CREWS Workshop gets started in Antigua.

Joe Bishop Describing

Mana Amornthammarong Shows Electronics

Hot work!

And what do you call this item? :D 

Anodes going fast!

The Monk's Head CREWS buoy has been cleaned every two week. So far, data has been seamless, and the buoy has been standing up the the weather very efficiently.

Primary concerns are:
1- Large quantities of Sargassum are 'scrubbing' the bottom paint from the buoy.
2- The combination of different metals are resulting in the rapid degradation of the anodes on the system.

Planning to do maintenance on the buoy and replace the anodes shortly!

CREWS/C5 Buoy Installed!

The buoy was installed this morning.  By late afternoon, the buoy was transmitting data successfully.

Deployed Station Underwater

Here's a view of what the station configuration looks like underwater.

Ruleo delivers

Ruleo Camacho snorkels the cement down to John Halas, who is filling in the drilled holes with cement in order to hold the mooring pins solid.

Pins Installed

The mooring pins were installed by John Halas of Environmental Moorings International, Inc. and Ruleo Camaco of the Department of the Environment.  Cement holding the pins needs to dry for five days, then the buoy will be ready to be installed on Monday, March 19.

John Halas

Randolph Christmas holds us steady

Depth reached

John finally achieves the full depth of drilling for the insertion of the mooring U-pin.