9/6-15

Position: 83° 07.07' N, 13° 45.9' W, temperature 0 °C, 1009 hPa, wind 12 knots from the W. Ice drift 0.3 knot towards the SE. Light rain today. The crack behind the hovercraft has closed completely. Made CTD cast to 1000 m depth. Audun recovered the AWI mass balance buoy which had ceased to function three weeks after deployment 30 August last year. The snow shelter protecting our Zarges boxes with food collapsed in the mild weather and had to be restored. The CMR bathymetry buoy in camp operate on a 10 minutes repetition rate which turns out to be hard on the batteries - changed to two 115 Ahr batteries. We saw three Ivory gulls in camp today.