38,000 Mile Service in Vancouver

On 24th November Jon Campbell flew to Vancouver to spend two days servicing the SNOMS system. The Pacific Celebes has sailed more than 38,000 nautical miles since the system was last serviced in Livorno. Jon was able to catch up what had been happening to the ship since then and also was able to introduce the system to two visitors from the local Institute of Ocean Sciences on Vancouver Island- Jim Christian and Marty Davelaar. The team at IOS have many years experience in investigating processes controlling concentrations of carbon dioxide in the North Pacific and were very interested in the new approaches being used in the SNOMS system on the Pacific Celebes.

Engineering cadet Erjun Ren in the picture below has been collecting our daily seawater samples and provided Jon valuable assistance with the servicing. He is shown here with the ProOceanus CO2Pro freshly removed from the SNOMS tank
On the second day it stopped raining and Jon was able to work on the outside equipment and take this picture of Vancouver across the harbour
The ProOceanus CO2Pro sensor was reluctant to be opened so some of the Celebes’s engineers are seen below applying a little ‘persuasion’ to get it open.

Normally all we find in the tank is water and a little mud on occasion, but this time some unfortunate little fish had found their way into the SNOMS tank during the short voyage from the Columbia River to Vancouver.