{"id":140,"date":"2013-12-07T17:36:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T22:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2014-06-26T17:08:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T21:08:19","slug":"scope-adventure-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/scope-adventure-day\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOPE &#8211; Adventure Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Started at 5am \u2013 dawn patrol, couldn\u2019t access Eglin Airforce Base beach where 90% of our ebb drifters beached, so we had to come up with an alternative plan &#8211; get them from the ocean with the waverunners<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">9 am \u00a0&#8211; nearshore drifter deployment, 100 drifters deployed!<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-169 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1477920_634425676603710_1282228338_n-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"1477920_634425676603710_1282228338_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1477920_634425676603710_1282228338_n-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1477920_634425676603710_1282228338_n.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">11 am \u2013 start ebb drifter recovery \u2013 2 wave runners and the blue water. This was slow going, but effective. Waverunner would zoom in and out of the surf zone with a swimmer to grab the beached drifters<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">12 pm \u2013 100 drifters start moving to shore<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">1230pm \u2013 Miami truck stuck on beach<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">3 pm at the farthest possible spot (ie 2 hours from our house) on the Airforce property getting our last drifter, Miami waverunner died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">330pm Bluewater and NPS waverunner assist with water recovery of the 100 drifters<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">4pm NPS waverunner heads back owing to low gas, assistance sent for the Miami waverunner<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">430pm Bluewater returns<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">2-7pm \u2013 recovering drifters from the beach and in the dark<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_168\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1167470_634064686639809_634779728_o.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1167470_634064686639809_634779728_o-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Bulldozer pulling truck out of the sand\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1167470_634064686639809_634779728_o-300x270.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1167470_634064686639809_634779728_o-1024x924.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1167470_634064686639809_634779728_o.jpg 1496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bulldozer pulling truck out of the sand<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">7pm \u2013 Miami waverunner rescued and transported in the Uhaul<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">8pm \u2013 everyone back eating pizza and drinking beer<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">930pm \u2013 passed out<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">In the end, we lost 5 drifters mostly from thieves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Just another day in the life of a physical oceanographer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">The next day we got up early and recovered the remaining beached drifters! \u00a0Woohoo! \u00a0The rest of the day was spent charging batteries, downloading 1 Hz drifter GPS data, fixing waverunners, and testing our aerial vehicles (quad chopter and helokite will be used for surfzone dye deployments planned for Monday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 5 Started at 5am \u2013 dawn patrol, couldn\u2019t access Eglin Airforce Base beach where 90% of our ebb drifters beached, so we had to come up with an alternative <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/scope-adventure-day\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}