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Dr. Steve DiMarco: It's the Beginning of a new era for us, right.
It's the glider period for oceanography
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So far we've done three missions for the glider. The first one was just a basic electronics
test to make sure it goes down and up comes up and is able to report, and that was successful.
The second test is for it to go up and down a few times. We call them yoes. So it did
a few yoes up and down, came up and recorded data. That seems to have also worked well.
The third test was for it to go find a waypoint, so a place in the ocean, and we said go to
this point. Given that we were tethered and that there was a fairly strong current associated
with this water here right now. I would say it didn't quite go as planned. I wouldn't
say it was a failure. It was just that the strong current and the tether influenced it.
We're going to get all those data back when we get on shore and go through a post mortem
of what we've done we can then assess all of the data. My general view is that this
has been a success and a real learning experience for everybody.
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Karen Dreger: We've been in doors sending all the commands
to the glider, telling it where we want it to swim to, what kind of missions we want
it to run, when we want it to collect data and when we don't.
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Ruth Mullins-Perry: Well one of our long-term goals is to have
a fleet of gliders, so to go beyond two gliders where we have a fleet of gliders flying concurrently.
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