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Long-Term Ocean Climate Observations (LOCO) – D301/302
Cruise Diary – 5th April 2006	Karel taking samples from the CTD bottles
Wednesday - Last night conditions remained to be too rough to restart the work again. It was a good decision first to steam to the station close to Madagascar where conditions were a bit better. Early in the morning the first CTD station was occupied on the shelf, at some 200 m depth. The shoreline of Madagascar could be seen on the horizon. After some more CTD stations another mooring was recovered successfully in the early afternoon.
Conditions have become a bit better so that we hope that the work on this section can be finished tomorrow. The sampling of surface water while steaming continues during the entire cruise. On the picture Blanca and Graham work on the filtration system that Blanca uses to filter large amounts of surface water.
The afterdeck during mooring recovery	Graham and Bianca with their filtration unit