5/9-14

Position: 87 23.9' N, 155 48.7' E, temperature - 4 C, air pressure 1019 hPa, wind 5 knots from ESE. White-out all day except for 1.5 hours of useable visibility. Discovered extensive melting under the hull of the hovercraft. Put the craft on pallets to get some distance from the ice surface. Initialized logging at the weather station and the radiation instruments at 0820 GMT. Tests of autonomous echo sounder buoys finalized.