Hello All
We stopped last night for our 18:00 CTD cast with a slight breeze from the North East and half an hour later were confronted by veering wind gusting well over 50 knots from the South East. We had all our days to try and maintain position since the weather came onto the vessels beam. We managed to maintain position while the CTD cast was completed. After the station we headed for our proposed glider deployment position for this morning but after a couple of uncomfortable rolls we decided to hove to for the night and wait for the weather to moderate.
We still managed to get to the deployment area by 09:00z this morning and after several communication test from ashore and a CTD cast we deployed the last of the two gliders shortly before lunch.
Other than the evening and morning CTDs we are making normal passage to the island and will be there by the evening tomorrow just in time to hide away from the approaching weather.
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