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We have had two successful recoveries today! Both Scipps instruments, so I am quite pleased. One occurred early this morning right around 6. I woke up to see it happen, and McCall was the first to spot it this time. So, again, we were in the cover of darkness so the strobe light made it easier to see. The other one happened tonight, right around 9 pm. It was a tie between me, McCall and Ernie (one of the OBS techs from Scripps) to spot it first, but I pointed first, so it went down in the log as mine :)

We went back to the first recovery spot where the Lamont instrument never came up to try again, but to no avail. Our fallen soldier will remain at the bottom of the ocean. Others think of it as our $70,000 gift to the Pacific. On a brighter note though, we already have the data off two of the instruments that have come up, so that is very exciting! Don and I are working to get the data unpacked so we can look at seismograms, but we are still troubleshooting a bit. So, no word about the data quality, but it is there!! All 24 GB of it (that is for just ONE station, I will be busy for the next three years).

Tonight McCall and I strapped on work vests and hard hats to be the 'pole girls' for the recovery. Basically we just had to grab the long poles the techs use to get a tag line on the instrument so we can crane it up on board. Not a huge responsibility, but it sure got my adrenaline going! I just didn't want something to go wrong and it be my fault! But we did just fine! And I managed to get the poles out of the way without knocking anyone in the water, so I call that a success.

Today, I certainly enjoyed breakfast. Fresh baked cinnamon rolls! Lunch was chili dogs, but I averted for just a bowl of minestrone soup. Dinner was pretty good as well! Beef stroganoff with egg noodles, grilled asparagus, but the show stopper was the honey macadamia nut shrimp. So good! There was also cherry pie (which it took all my power to not indulge in a slice a la mode) and I got a nibble of the butterscotch pecan cookies. Those I may have to indulge in later ;) McCall and I finally got on the rowing machine, and I am going to be sore tomorrow. But the more we work out, the more cookies I can eat, so I'll take it!