Y'all we just got the okay to GO ON TO THE Great Pacific Garbage Patch! Wilson was put through numerous tests in the Pacific Trials including the U-shape installation, maintaining sufficient speed through water, ability to reorient when wind or wave direction changes, and effective span (opening-width) in steady state! Go Wilson go!!! We have been sitting around 350 nautical miles off the coast of California through some rough weather, through the installation process, and through monitoring Wilson closely for the last 17ish days! I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am (and I think the rest of the crew too XD) to see the system in action in the Garbage Patch! Hopefully we'll get there in relatively good time - crossing our fingers for no storms en route (I did knock on wood writing that - GOTTA BE SAFE). The trip to the GPGP is two weeks of towing approximately, though if I've learned anything on this journey, it's that the ocean determines our speed and effectiveness of towing and other operations. So we shall see what kind of timeline we are looking at as we begin to make our way out to the Garbage Patch. It has come to my attention that there have been a number of spelling errors on my blog and seeing as our operations on board the vessel tend to be more limited while towing I'm going to be on the lookout for my typos - though if anyone has any that jump to mind if you wouldn't mind leaving a comment on that post it would be much appreciated by this Trash Scientist. Happy October!
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DeAnn
10/3/2018 07:46:06 pm
Bree, Happy October and Go Wilson Go! Looking forward to hearing more!
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AuthorBree Gibbs, here. I'm a recent Master's Grad just trying to share what it's like to be a trash scientist (for those who aren't in the know, I'm a marine biologist). Categories
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