Its a Freakin’ Big River

June 13th, 2010

The Mississippi! So today we got on the boat and started collecting data. Before we could do that though we had to put the airgun, the chirp, and the streamer in the water. We got everything set up in a pretty timely manner. However the river is full of logs, branches, and the occasional full tree and the buoy setup we had for the streamer got hit by a tree within minutes of being in the water. It got hit so hard the ziptie tore and it started floating away down river. But we have a small boat with a fantastic crew that just goes around and tries to push/ pull them out of the way before they can become a problem which chased it down for us.  Everyone is being fantastic and I'm having a lot of fun with the whole group of scientists and crew. Only downside for right now is when we played a couple friendly matches of volleyball post-river my team lost twice in a row. We're plotting our revenge for tomorrow night. haha