Ramses -- July 2007 Mission

The main goal of this mission was a training exercise before Catherine Edwards graduates and takes all her glider knowledge and experience away. She has been instrumental in getting the glider program started at UNC-CH. So, Catherine trained two new glider pilots at UNC (Chris Calloway and Sara Haines) by preparing the glider for a mission, and then flying it, first, in a small box mission near the R2 Navy TACTS Tower off the Georgia coast and then, on a Gulf Stream mission.

We wanted to boldly try a Gulf Stream mission by flying an eastward heading for given amount of time and then turn 180 degrees to fly due west to hopefully get back out. Knowing the glider would be swept downstream from its original starting point, we hoped to swim the glider back down the coast in calmer shelf-water back to its starting point.

But just as we tried to go offshore into the Gulf Stream, the glider jettisoned its weight because it was held under for many hours. It had to be recovered immediately as it was caught in the Gulf Stream and being carried off.

Many thanks to Bill Savidge and the captain and crew of the R/V Savannah at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography for helping to deploy the glider at R2. And an extreme thank-you to the captains of the R/V Cape Fear and Lynn Leonard at UNC-Wilmington for helping us to recover the wayward glider 100 miles offshore.

The Event Log summarized the details of events that occurred during this particular mission.

Tracking

• Glider Tracking Map with latest surface currents and wind observations
• Google Tracking Map

Plots

• Table of realtime plots

Last 16 sbds: Depth Position Density time series Density profiles Temperature, salinity, density time series T-S diagram Calculated water velocity Maps of surface/bottom density

All available data: Depth Position Density time series Density profiles Temperature, salinity, density time series T-S diagram of surface/bottom water Calculated water velocity Maps of surface/bottom density



• Table of plots during time before the abort at 31 July 2007 (06:37 Z) and includes lastgasp missions after the abort

Last 16 sbds at time of abort: Depth Position Density time series Density profiles Temperature, salinity, density time series T-S diagram Calculated water velocity Maps of surface/bottom density

All available data at time of abort: Depth Position Density time series Density profiles Temperature, salinity, density time series T-S diagram of surface/bottom water Calculated water velocity Maps of surface/bottom density