Position: 87° 27.9' N, 64° 12' W, temperature - 32° C, air pressure 1006 hPa, wind 34 knots from NE. Ice drift 0.3 knots towards SSW. Shooting seismic reflection all day. The air gun stopped trigging around midnight - serviced the solenoid again.
Position: 87° 34.4' N, 63° 23' W, temperature - 24° C, air pressure 1008 hPa, wind 19 knots from the ENE. Ice drift 0.3 knots towards the SSW. Acquiring seismic reflection data all day. Had problems with trigging of the air gun in the afternoon and also around midnight. Serviced the solenoid and the problem was fixed.
Position: 87° 35.4' N, 62° 55' W, temperature - 32° C, air pressure 1015 hPa, wind 17 knots from the WSW. Ice drift 0.2 knots towards ENE. Acquiring seismic reflection data all day. Audun downloaded the data from the thermistor probes. One probe had a crack and the electronics was fried.
Position: 87° 34.2' N, 64° 05' W, temperature - 34° C, air pressure 1029 hPa, wind 2 knots from the W. Ice drift 0.2 knots towards E. Shooting seismic reflection all day. Audun discovered a 20 cm wide crack going right through the hydrophone hole and 1 meter away from three of our food boxes. Secured the hydrophone and let it remain in the crack.
Position: 87° 33.9' N, 64° 34' W, temperature - 28° C, air pressure 1030 hPa, wind 7 knots from the NNE. Ice drift 0.1 knots towards the east. Resumed seismic shooting after midnight. Audun moved more fuel to the camp. Our inventory is about 7.000 liter left. Have finally thawed out my personal clothes after they got submerged by overwater on the ice when the ice hangar had to be abandoned in the beginning of October
Position: 87° 33.9' N, 64° 47' W, temperature - 35° C, air pressure 1023 hPa, wind3 knots from the NW. Ice drift 0.0 knots. Continued repair of the used generator and found the brushes worn. Replaced with brushes from the other newly broken one and we have power back again. Started heating the compressor again. Periods of intense pressure ridging sounds like standing next to a large water fall.
Position: 87° 34.2' N, 65° 05' W, temperature - 27° C, air pressure 1020 hPa, wind 10 knots from ENE. Ice drift 0.1 southeast. Shooting seismic reflection all day. Noticed strong jerks repeatedly over several hours. The reason was active pressure ridging about 250 meter to the north of us. The area seems otherwise intact. At 1400 hours the generator suddenly lost AC-power output. Hauled out the new spare generator and started. It run for about 2 hours and suddenly stopped. The cause is no compression as one valve lifting rod is unseated. This is not repairable here.
Position: 87° 36.8' N, 65° 04' W, temperature - 28° C, air pressure 1020 hPa, wind 21 knots from ENE. Ice drift 0.2 knots towards southwest. Shooting seismic reflection all day. Problems with hydrophone noise in the early morning - recovered the hydrophone and put it out again.
Position: 87° 40.7' N, 64° 47' W, temperature - 38° C, air pressure 1028 hPa, wind 12 knots from the ENE. Ice drift 0.2 knots towards the SSW. Acquiring seismic reflection data all day. Rigged up the electric oven in the new tent and called home for instructions on how to prepare a pork roast. Had a successful meal of pork roast, red cabbage and cloud berries for dessert.
Position: 87° 44.4' N, 63° 42' W, temperature - 43° C, air pressure 1026 hPa, wind 2 knots from the NNW. Ice drift 0.1 knots due south. Acquiring seismic reflection data all day. Too cold to do work outside.
