Today, the weather improved beginning with a mild breeze and cloudy skies, improving by early afternoon with sunny and calm conditions. Today was also the day that we finished the first seismic line by obtaining seismic data for the last 1.7 km. This last part had severely broken ice, but the big plowing blade in front of the Challenger tractor was able to shear off the tops of the ice with no problem.
Some of the broken up ice that we had to work through to complete line one.
The Challenger with Mount Lister in the background.
This linked the first 13 km of seismic data we collected before the air compressor problems, with the seismic data that went over the old drill site (CIROS-1) and further westward to where a possible future drill site might be located. We then picked up the seismic cables, all 1,500 meters, with the geophone (sensitive microphones that can pick up the echo of sound waves bouncing off the sedimentary layers below the sea floor), moved over to the beginning of the second line and laid them out.
Brian laying out the seismic cables before we started line two.
We were able to do 1.7 km more of seismics on the second line before we called it quits for a total of 3.4 km of seismics collected today.
The weather forecast is for more great weather on Monday and now we are hopeful to finish sometime during the week before Thanksgiving.
