Hello!
After travelling to Oregon, and preparing Sentry on the docked ship for Friday/Saturday, on Sunday we left to go explore the Axial volcano in the Juan de Fuca ridge. Here we will be gathering depth and pressure measurements to compare to measurements from a few years ago. This should teach the geophysicists more about how volcanos systems work and possibly give them a hint of when the axial volcano will explode.
As I am writing, Sentry is in the water and we are tracking her with DVL (a device which uses the doppler effect to get our position from the boat). We are also tracking Sentry with Wifflenav which uses acoustics and shows us where Sentry is in relation to the ground. Wiffle nav is the most reliable way to track Sentry in the water. I am on watch while Sentry is in the water from 7pm-12.
I have also been checking logs and reporting any errors to Sentry’s software guy, reading about serial and udp communications and playing with a homemade trigger board.
-Syenna