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Long-Term Ocean Climate Observations (LOCO)
Cruise Diary – 14th March 2005	Trap in mooring   Winner murder game
Monday - The last day at sea and the last day of our diary. Thus the proper moment to contemplate our fabulous results. No less then 8 moorings were recovered and subsequently deployed, despite all the permission problems as you will be aware of. But that is not all: how about 4 nearly ten meter long pistoncores going back in time for more than a 100,000 years, five perfect multicores that will help us to understand the interface between sediment and water and sufficient CTD stations to characterize the ocean currents through the Mozambique Channel and its role in the global ocean circulation. At least we retrieved more than enough data to work on for the coming years. Although our expedition leader Herman already has more data at hand than he can handle, we will be back, hopefully one and a half years from now. Perhaps to play a new murder game, now that Anna has been found out. We all admired our chefs working in the hottest galley ever and still preparing delicious meals and all the engineers, perhaps residing in the hottest place of all. All people on deck toiling in the blazing sun and helping us when they could. The SOCs for assisting with the CTD and the PC and last but not least the people on the bridge for all their manoeuvring the ship. _______________