I ended up working on our radar system on Sunday because it was not working and we were supposed to leave on Monday. I was not able to fix it on Sunday on my own. The trip ended up being pushed back a day. I spent the day on Monday working with the radar tech. I learned alot about the system. By the end of the day we found that it was the board and magnetron in the radar antenna. We replaced them and the radar fired right up.
We left on Tuesday morning. Once we got out to the gulf stream we did our first CTD cast. Unfortunately we started having problems with our oxygen sensors. We pulled the CTD back on deck and switched out the sensor with a spare we had on board. That did not fix the problem. We ended up using a different CTD port to see if that would fix the problem and it did. But we had to unplug something else to test the oxygen sensor. So we need to find what information the scientists didn’t need so we could remove that piece of equipment and have the port open for the oxygen sensor. We ended up eliminating our surface par. We did not have any more issues with the CTD for the rest of the trip. The trip went very smoothly after that. We had the same watch schedule as we had for when we did our tampa transit. We got back on saturday, but we had to keep an eye on the weather because it looks like another storm might be heading our way. We ended up not going up the river this time because the storm kept moving to the south so it was projected to miss us.