Friday 29 June 2007


Last week, we pulled up the metal frame that held the hydrophones in position under the Marine Life Centre. The frame was a little stuck in the thick oozy mud! Fortunately we had Hong to help out, and even though he's recovering from a little accident on his mountain bike, he was able to rig up a 1.5 tonne winch. Hong, Bruce, Linda and I dived down, took the weights off the corners of the frame, attached a chain and we winched it up easily. Towing the frame back to the pier broke a couple of welded joints, and as you can see there was a little bit of growth on the frame (see Linda and Bruce looking handy with scrapers)! The scraped-down frame is now back in UST where they'll fix it. Hopefully, we'll be able to get back to the centre next week so we can relocate the detector to its new site.