Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:01:33 -0800 From: Tom Johengen Organization: U.S. DOC/NOAA/GLERL Mime-Version: 1.0 To: eegle-spl@wings.glerl.noaa.gov Cc: captaint@umich.edu Subject: Leg 1 (Survey) cruise plans Everyone, once again the weather seems to want to choose the worst end of the forecast. Given the Gale Effect, 10 ft wave predictions for Saturday I think its safe to say that we wont start surveying on Sunday. However, if conditions permit we would like the Laurentian to get down to St. Joseph by Sunday night, so that we could come on board that evening and hopefully start the cruise Monday morning at 07:00 doing the St. Joseph transect first. Personnel and samples will be off loaded at the end of that transect (at the outerwall site next to the park) and we would continue south to Gary. By the way, we will only do a single PSS tow at St. Joseph, NOT the scheduled day and night, because of limited time. The Muskegon transect will be sampled on our return to that port and the turnaround for the second leg. I will continue to follow the forecast and talk with the captain over the weekend. We will have to make a call by Sunday morning regarding the ship departing for St. Joe and I will email and start the phone tree at that time. At least when we get out there, there will be something worthwhile to sample!! Tom J.