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Week 2 Activities
 Update
Week 2 – July 21
We had one small glitch in operations this
week: the survey vessel we chartered was held up on a previous
job in Holland for another week, which would mean pushing the
start date back a week. Fortunately, Osiris Projects outfitted
a smaller but similar vessel, named
Freja
(pronounced Fray-uh, named after a sea god), to do the same
surveying as the Lia, so we were able to spend our first
day at sea on Tuesday, July 18. We’ll move over to the Lia
when she arrives early next week and continue operations.
We expected that there might be some bugs to work out, but Andy
McLeay and his crew from Osiris are top-notch professionals and
had everything under control. On Tuesday, our first day out, we
spent a very productive 13 hours collecting sonar and
magnetometer data within our designated search area. The sonar
is so sensitive that it picks up even the smallest objects on
the sea floor, and ridges in the sand that look like mountain
ranges are actually less than a meter high. See picture below
left.
The rest of the week was just as
productive, but there is some weather coming over the weekend,
so we’ll hope it isn’t bad enough to hinder operations. On
the outreach front, Peter Reaveley and Jack Ringelberg gave
presentations to a very interested group of folks who had met us
back in March on our planning visit. We also stopped in to say
hello to the owners of the new Bonhomme Richard Guest House here
in Bridlington to talk about our favorite topic. The
Bridlington Regeneration Partnership hosted a “Welcome Back to
Brid” dinner for the team to see old friends and meet new ones.
More radio interviews and school visits also took place.
Until next week...
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