We got home yesterday morning… arriving at the harbour heads as dawn breaks is always magical - especially after a long trip. #tan2502 - a busy day followed with heaps of biosecurity and very busy offloading and media stuff.
#oceanography #climate #antarctica
There wasn’t such a media flurry as there have been a few science ships in town in the last few weeks.
we are closing in on home - unfortunately wallowing in 4 m swell from a couple of directions and fog but at least getting further north each day... #TAN2502 #Antarctica (noting that the image I casually grab a section of has #NOAA marked at the bottom 😟 )
We've had science talks all the way back interspersed with other fun stuff - tonite was quiz night. My contribution were questions on #TeTiriti and #SplitEnz (mindful that 70% of the team of from not NZ 😉 )
we start the long haul north to Aotearoa in a couple of hours... currently being snowed upon in foggy/misty cloud. #Antarctica #Tan2502
* 1080 Niskin bottles sampled
* around 240 stations
* around 2,500 biological samples
* around 40 camera surveys with 1300 minutes of video
* 1 robot glider mission
* 13 ocean data moorings (in/out/both)
* 12 Argo floats
* 9000 km (on return)
and 20 friends for life...
re-deploying our last sensors for the voyage yesterday - just as the weather turned. It got reasonably windy after this, but by then we were off and away to hide in Robertson Bay.
Managed to recover our ocean glider last night after a 10 day mission. 24hr daylight helps - that plus amazing weather. (img : Hana Ishii) You can see the little workboat returning with the glider aboard.
Oceans Craig