I am headed out shortly for Oregon and the R\V Oceanus. I am honored to have been selected for this excellent opportunity. Tami and Nandita have been great getting me squared away and my host Toby at Oregon State University has been full of great information to prepare me for the internship. I am somewhat in awe of the resources put into making this opportunity happen. The emails have been flying as the folks at MATE, OSU and even the USCG have been coordniating my travel. I am very grateful for everyone’s efforts and will do my best to deserve the attention! In a couple of days I start a great learning advenure….can’t wait!
Month: May 2014
I forgot when I did my last blog post, but when we were working on the Oceanus, the NOAA ship the Tommy Thompson was tied up next to us. Lo and behold, on her fantail was the most famous ROV of all…JASON! My mentors know a bunch of people on the Thompson so we got to visit. I got to meet JASON’s crew and chat for a while. The supervisor gave me some good information about being an ROV Technician. For a budding ROV guy, it was pretty cool!
Only four days in to my internship and I have already completed two task that are the stock and trade for ROV Technicians (my future career): cable lubrication and cable termination. My mentor has me working on a great project to build a microcontroller operated spray wash system for the CTD cable as well. Tomorrow we depart for a 12 day mission to deply and recover geophysical devices. If I learn as much in the next 12 days as I have in the last four, my head will explode!