first mooring

Yeahhh!!!
I got to see the first mooring, it was 2000 meters deep!!! so cool. The
ocean is so blue and it is like a desert over here, there is no animals
besides some birds that think we are going to feed them. I have no clue
why are they out here if there is almost nothing to feed on. I saw a tinny
spider on my shorts though, but didn't seem to be really meaty for those
birds.
Once we get the mooring on board they would give us the data from the
Current Meters (CM) and we will estimate the tides. I get to use a program
called t_tide written in MatLab (I really like MatLab). By using this
program we could predict the main tides M2 and K1 --aparently K1 is a lot
less energetic than what M2 is--.
While downloading the data, Lou will test his microprofiler, it would not
go down, it is just to train the crew on how to recover it.
The CTD/LADCP team will deploy it for the first cast. We are looking
forward to do that since we adapted the holding system. The main problem
is that one of the instruments, the one facing down, coul beam the
structure giving us errors in the data. So far, we are confident this
won't happen.