Unexpected Success

Today we planned to do an afternoon deployment testing a new strategy for scanning. Last night Wentao and I thought we had made good progress on the new scanning strategy so it could be easily finished this morning. However, Wentao, Jane, and I ended up working right up to the time we had to leave getting the missions ready for today. There were moments where we considered not going out today, but when the time to leave came around we had enough ready we figured it would be worth it.

Everyone helped carry the equipment done to the boat launch. Sam, Amy, Zoe and I went on the boat while Wentao, Jane, and Roslyn stayed back at the apartment to work on research. The first mission launched well, but as we neared the first surface point Amy spotted Vernon surfacing right under our boat. We were able to accelerate over Vernon before he surfaced so there was no collision, but it was a little scary. We had another small scare when fetching Vernon from the water where the water pushed Amy close to the boat's propeller. Other than that the missions went well, despite being rushed to prepare them.

Sam and I hugging after the successful missions