Fuel
Taking on about 200,000 gallons of bunker diesel from the fuel truck takes most of a day!
We are a delayed leaving by a couple of days; but, as soon as the coring systems and the winch are ready, we’ll be off.
Taking on about 200,000 gallons of bunker diesel from the fuel truck takes most of a day!
We are a delayed leaving by a couple of days; but, as soon as the coring systems and the winch are ready, we’ll be off.
This is a bit of a beauty shot of our new line for the piston core. Stay tuned, this line is quite important to our work on this cruise.
Cool pic!
Check out this big wrench, and the big blue block. The block is what helps us run rope and wire over the side to deploy our coring equipment!
Big stuff, like this container, gets loaded on by crane…then lots of boxes get moved around by people. (More …)
Among the other super powers… well packed and ready for anything!
(Please also pack my best wishes 🙂
Getting everything ready to leave for 47 days at sea on the Crocca-2s expedition! Our name Crocca-2s stands for Coring to Reconstruct Ocean Circulation and Carbon-dioxide Across 2 Seas.
We set sail from Perth, Australia on Nov. 4th! Everything about working in the South Indian Ocean has the potential to be challenging, but the team is excited!
Best of luck, Professor Hartnett! Bon voyage!
Stay tuned – I leave January 2nd for two weeks of reconnaisance and preliminary sampling of hotsprings in southwestern China! I will be traveling with a team of researchers from UNLV, NAU, Montana State, San Francisco State, Ohio University, and the University of Georgia. We’ll be working with Chinese collaborators from Tongji University, China University of Geosciences – Beijing, and Yunnan University.
This is a highly-collaborative project with the aim of conducting integrated research into the geochemistry and geobiology of terrestrial hydrothermal systems.
Tim 8:16 am on November 9, 2018 Permalink |
That’s a good supply! And plenty of ballast. Our old diesel boats could ?only? carry about 130,000 when fully outfitted for patrol. Dad