To appreciate again the scale of not only the ship, but also the equipment on the ship, one of the ship’s two onboard cranes was needed to help hoist one piece of equipment into another. It’s bright outside, as it is all day and night. Here’s a crane lifting a metal tube (that will serve as the base of the soon-to-be-deployed O-buoy) into the middle of this yellow ring (that will be the flotation for keep the tube). The antenna of the O-buoy, which has an anemometer (wind speed and direction), a thermometer, and GPS, has yet to be placed on top of the tube, but when we get to the ice, we’re drilling a hole and it’s all going in!
