Retirement of the Pacific Celebes

Early Wednesday Jon Campbell and Mark Hartman were heading towards Heathrow and then onto Melbourne Australia - their job being to decommission the SNOMS system on the Pacific Celebes. The Celebes, which has been such an excellent platform for the work of the SNOMS project has one more port call in Brisbane before she heads for a breakers yard in China. 

More details of our farewell to follow.

The SNOMS system will be shipped to Dalhousie University in Canada, where we will carry out tests on the system comparing the present senor performance with new ones from ProOceanus and Satlantic. The tests will be based at Dal's Aquatron Laboratories (www.aquatron.dal.ca).

Something different

Recently we were contacted through the SNOMS web pages by Gary Harbottle an Australian car fan who was desperate to know when his ’57 Chevy would be arriving in Melbourne. The pictures above and below show his Chevy waiting to go on board the Celebes when she was in LA. 

Gary’s car was following on from other interesting cargo she has carried during a career that has included steam railway engines and luxury yachts. This brings to mind the Celebes own engine, a wonderful four cylinder that has throbbed at a pace to make any Harley Davison enthusiast envious, turning her screw at 72 rpm. The picture below shows work being done on the cylinder heads.