Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Deep CTD swapped, capillary tubes removed

In a visit to the station on Tuesday, October 24th, Dave Ward removed the SRVI2-Deep CTD (s/n 1644), whose temperature sensor was malfunctioning, which was also affecting this CTD's salinity data.

The new SRVI2-Deep CTD is s/n 1608, and it appears to be working properly.

Dave Ward removed the capillary tubes from the SRVI2-Shallow CTD (s/n 1643) and from the SeaBird SBE-29 pressure sensor. It was hoped that this would fix the problems with the pressure readings from SRVI2-Shallow (which show a large drift in readings over time) but removing the capillary tubes has not fixed the SRVI2-Shallow problem. It appears as though we will have to replace SRVI2-Shallow as well.

The so-called "GroundTruth" CT remains a permanent fixture on this station while we work out the problems with the CTDs.