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The chummy for keeping the cable free of ice as it is winched back up. ‘Chummy’ is a Newfoundland word for an object that you don’t have a real name for, as in, “what’s that chummy on the windowsill?” or “where in the world did you get that chummy you keep under your bed?” (I’m not sure these examples help, but they’re fun to come up with).
(Caroline Wylie)Kenny Scozzafava, master of oxygen samples. Dissolved oxygen is also measured by a sensor on the CTD, and the samples are used to calibrate that data.
(Joey Wenig)Hugh Maclean running salinity samples. Like oxygen, salinity samples are used as a check to make sure the CTD is operating properly, and, because salinity varies with depth, to make sure that the bottle fired at the depth it was intended to be fired at.
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