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R/V Wecoma: 26 September 2008, 0800
Submitted by Stephen Pierce on September 27, 2008 - 5:51am
We have been surveying the Columbia River plume with CTDs and boom-mounted ADCP.
We were disturbed to find that the steel boom for the ADCP was starting to crack, in fact had almost completely cracked off (see photo). This boom is subject to surprisingly large forces in rough weather.
