5/6-15

Position: 83° 23.4' N, 15° 36.7' W, temperature - 5 °C, pressure 1015 hPa, wind 23 knots from the NNW. Ice drift 0.3 knot towards the S. Made a CTD cast down to 1000 meter depth. Finished transfer of all logs to Exel format. Discovered a band of 3 parallel cracks trending NW_SE across our floe. Hovercraft azimuth is 240 degrees. One of the cracks is right behind the stern skirt, and one crack separates the craft from the radiation flux instrument and the weather station. Cracks are 10 cm wide.