22/5-15

Position: 83° 50.9' N, 16° 06' W, temperature - 7° C, pressure 1019 hPa, wind 5 knots from the NW. Drove over to the current meter site and continued the search. The current meter suspended at 800 meter depth is lost. Moved over to the ADCP mooring. Drilled a hole 7 meter from the mooring, but did not reach through. Made it through 2 m. thick ice 10 meter away. Lowered the camera, but no sign of an instrument. This is in a pressure ridge and even if we could spot the ADCP, we probably would not have been able to recover it. Moved the last
fuel back to our camp. We received an e-mail from Danish Arctic Command with a generous offer of an air drop if needed on Wednesday May 27. We gratefully accepted and spare parts were shipped from Bergen to Søndre Strømfjord on the shortest notice. This enables us to get spares for the radiator and extra antifreeze and the temporary repair will no longer be a gamble. An extra four kilos of oatmeal and two kilos of onions were deleted from the list due to import restrictions in Greenland.