baptized
Today I was baptized, for the first time I lost an oceanographic equipment. I was in cruises that we lost gear before, but this was the first time that was a human - mine - failure. A fraction of second, I saw everything happening, but couldn't avoid it. There is certainly some project failures, I mean, could be better planned, but I could have done much better. I'm so pissed and disappointed with myself on that respect. I know that I'm pretty good with this kind of things, specially in learn fast new procedures. I think I was still on the adapting mode, not completely fine with the sea rolling, and that might have contributed to my inability. Worst than the financial lost is not be able to collect the data. This was an underway CTD, and what would guarantee the high coverage sampling near the surface. Another sensor was lost last year, and the backup wasn't arranged on time. Damn it, I still can't believe I did that.
Tomorrow we start to prepare for the buoys. There is a Tropical depression/Tropical Storm on the way to what would b the first buoy, so we're going to change and do the second one first and give more time for the weather get better around the first one.
