Hey All
So we seem to have run into some trouble over the past day. Challenger has had a sudden drop in voltage which we have come to find is associated with the lithium batteries being dangerously low on juice.
Challenger is now up at the surface drifting as we do not want to test how much remaining battery we have left. We have been in contact with Collin out on the island to see if he is available for an emergency recovery.
Looking to PINZON’s forecast of the currents, it is dire that we get this glider out of the water soon, as it looks like the overall flow will be away from the island over the forecasted period, pushing us out of the recovery zone
We will keep you updated on the details of the recvoery, but for now here is some of the data we collected during our sampling missions. It will be a much more complete data set once we recover and get the full files, but for now we can continue to see the oscillation up and down of the thermocline that we were hoping to capture.
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