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The second cruise of the CLIMODE project is underway.

Thanks very much to the first cruise team of Lou and Gary for doing such\
a great job.  The crew say that that cruise was one of the roughest they
have had.

During the layover in Bermuda we repaired the stabilized platform.
Sea water had gotten into various plugs and other components of the platform
and it stopped working about Feb 20.  The profiler continued to collect
reasonable data (winds okay cf soundings) although the data was a little noisey.

We cleaned out the platform with electrical contact cleaner and found that
when it was turned on the plug on the cable going from the platform controller 
junction box up into the platform itself started smoking and causing ground 
faults warnings on the ships engineers electrical panel. We couldn't clean
that plug out enough so we completely by-passed that box and hardwired that 
cable into the junction box (15 wires).  Now it seems to be going fine.

Also did training sounding yesterday (March 1).

Second cruise started and profiler turned on about 9:30 LT (13:30Z) March 1.
Seas fairly calm.

Bill and Laura are on the second cruise.