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No Joy. Run it Again…

An issue in one of the sonar channels…

THURSDAY, 03.05.09

1826: To Ted Waitt, No Joy
Just so ya know, we just got data back from 8b and it looks like we have an issue in one of the sonar channels. We did get data in the starboard channel okay, but the port channel was about half washed out. We’re likely gonna run it again backwards after they tweak it. In what we did see, nothing stood out, although there are multiple rock fields. Nothing blazing, they’ll go over it again and again, but I wanted you to get first word. At first glance of 8b, it appears we are still looking.

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Woods Hole (WHOI) Sr. Engineer Greg Packard, also the CATALYST 2 Operations Team Lead, spends hours reviewing the logs to understand the vehicles' performance.