What a week here in Wilmington! We completed our 3rd successful deployment around Frying Pan Shoals and UNCW CMS hosted an OOI Data Lab. I am very grateful for the Operations staff here who completed the recovery operation in record time.
Second, what a treat to see Kim Albins again! As lead PISCO technician, Kim was instrumental in helping me deploy/recover moorings for my thesis research at OSU circa 2009 – 2012. She is now a faculty member at the University of Mobile (welcome to Academia!). From sea-otter to sea-hawk, I figured some flashback photos were in order:
Seasick Suanda 