The above map shows the paths the Pacific Celebes took as she traded in the Pacific and 2011 and 2012.
The Pacific Celebes arrived in Melbourne
Australia for the last time on 24 March 2012, before heading to breakers yard
in China. The ship was met by Jon Campbell and Mark Hartman from NOC. While they were waiting for the Celebes to arrive, they were able
to visit Helen Beggs and Ruslan Verein at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
in Melbourne. This was to arrange the transfer of sea surface temperature to the Bureau.
Once on board they worked to remove the equipment from the ship, helped by the ships crew.
Above Mark starts the job of removing the data logger. Below the crew can been seen helping maneuver the SNOMS tank so it could be winched out of the engine room space.
As a heartfelt thank you to the crew Mark and Jon presented the Master Cai and Chief Engineer Lin Jin with NOC paper weights.
And all the crew with the NOC T-shirts they are modelling in the photo below.
The last thing was to check the packing of the equipment - the boxes of sampling to go to Southampton.
And the SNOMS tank and instruments to go to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The
SNOMS system was shipped to University of Dalhousie, Halifax, Canada where over
the next few months it will be used in tests that will help develop a second
generation of flow tank based systems for observing the carbon dioxide system
in the surface ocean. Doug. Wallace’s team at Dalhousie has plans for fitting
SNOMS inspired tank based systems on two or three routes working in the North
Atlantic. Testing will be done at the Dalhousie’s large facility the Aquatron
Laboratory (http://aquatron.dal.ca/). The NOC
SNOMS team are now (April 2012) designing experiments with the team at
Dalhousie for testing the SNOMS system. David Hydes will travel to Halifax (12
May) to work on the start up of the actual tests. New sensors from two firms in
Halifax, will be tested. These will be from ProOceanus who have provided our
present core measuring device and Satlantic who have a promising device for
directly measuring the pH of seawater. This will be to the high accuracy and
precision needed for the assessment of ocean acidification.
