Daily Reports

Position: 87° 06.5' N, 62° 32' W, temperature below - 40° C, air pressure 1005 hPa, wind 4 knots from the N. Ice drift 0.1 knot to the SE. Shooting seismic reflection all day. Deployed the short sediment corer and recovered a 20 cm core for the Ice2Ice-project.

Position: 87° 05.6' N, 63° 23' W, temperature below - 40° C, air pressure 997 hPa, wind 17 knots from the S. Ice drift 0.2 towards ENE. Shooting seismic reflection all day. The camera sled was deployed in 1.260 m water depth. About 30 minutes of video recorded with the sled in motion and several life forms imaged which we have not seen at our earlier deployments. A CTD cast made to 1180 meter depth.

Position: 87° 03.8' N, 65° 28' W, temperature - 36° C, air pressure 990 hPa, wind 15 knots from the S. Ice drift 0.4 knot to the E. Shooting seismic reflection all day. Made a CTD cast. On the way up, the CTD remained at 600 meter depth for one hour because a hydraulic hose burst and had to be replaced. Reamed the hydro hole.

Position: 87° 04.0' N, 67° 47' W, temperature - 23° C, air pressure 981 hPa, wind 10 knot from the N. Ice drift 0.2 knots towards E. Moved seismic acquisition to back-up PC which has an identical set-up. Restarted seismic shooting at 1245 hours. Checked radiation flux instrument and cleaned sensors. Made another CTD cast down to 2.400 meter depth - water depth is 2.550 meter. Audun moved 1.000 liter diesel up to the hovercraft.

Position: 87° 05.9' N, 67° 47' W, temperature below - 40° C, air pressure 1017 hPa, wind 5 knots from the N. Ice drift 0.0 knot. PC completed 15 hour disk scan/repair cycle. Reboots in Windows as usual, but flips back to fault conditions. Checked the radiation flux instruments and cleaned sensors. Made the first CTD cast down to 2.450 meter in 2560 meter water depth

Position: 87° 06.0' N, 67° 48' W, temperature - 28° C, air pressure 1027 hPa, wind 10 knots from the N. Ice drift 0.0 knot. Seismic acquisition PC is down - we are working on the problem. Audun moved fuel towards the camp from a temporary fuel bladder location. Sent an invitation to Dr. Artur Chilingarov for a Russian polar scientist/technician to replace Audun at crew change.

Position: 87° 06.8' N, 67° 40' W, temperature -37° C, air pressure 1029 hPa, wind 10 knots from the N. Ice drift 0.1 knots towards east. Audun connected up the wind mill, but outside switch box was corroded and had to be replaced. CTD was checked and batteries changed. Replaced start batteries (2 x 110 Ahr.) and service batteries (4x 110 Ahr.) in the hovercraft. The seismic data logging PC crashed again. We are not drifting anywhere for the moment so no opportunities are lost.

Position: 87° 07.4' N, 67° 45' W, temperature - 39° C, air pressure 1029 hPa, wind 3 knots. Ice drift 0.1 knot to the east. PC for seismic data logging crashed, but came up again. Laid out 12 Volt power from the hovercraft to the radiation flux instruments to avoid maintaining batteries out in the cold.

Position: 87° 07.5' N, 68° 12' W, temperature - 31° C, air pressure 1025 hPa, wind 7 knots from the NE. Ice drift 0.1 towards E. Checked radiation flux instruments; cleaned sensors, changed fan battery (80 Ahr., 13 Volt, changed memory card and battery on the data logger. Used battery measured 12.2 Volt. Checked the weather station. Worked on cleaning the hydro hole using the vertical ice saw. Discovered the air gun hanging from the air hose and the signal cable - the wire had broken. Recovered the air gun. Insufficient wind to test the wind mill.

Position: 87° 08.3' N, 68° 54' W, temperature - 27° C, air pressure 1025 hPa, wind 10 knots from NE. Ice drift 0.1 knot to the E. Shooting seismic reflection all day. Cleaning up after several days of blowing snow. The wind mill came up on a pole, and the power line need to be connected