{"id":21078,"date":"2015-02-25T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/?p=21078"},"modified":"2015-04-08T22:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T22:24:05","slug":"libbys-tour-scripps-argo-float-lab-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/2015\/02\/libbys-tour-scripps-argo-float-lab-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing&#8230; Argo floats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/sail-the-odyssey\/blue-planet-odyssey\/participants\/meet-the-participants\/#Libby\">Sailing yacht Libby<\/a>, crewed by Terry and Dena Singh, and taking part in the <a title=\"Blue Planet Odyssey\" href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/sail-the-odyssey\/blue-planet-odyssey\/\">Blue Planet Odyssey<\/a>, took onboard\u00a0eight Argo floats in San Diego for deployment in the Pacific Ocean, in a remote area of ocean west of the Galapagos Islands.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22116\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4772_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22116\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22116\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4772_2.jpg\" alt=\"Libby's fore cabin full of Argo floats\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4772_2.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4772_2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4772_2-90x120.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libby&#8217;s fore cabin full of Argo floats<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An Argo float is a battery-powered autonomous float that spend most of its life drifting at depths of between 1000m to 2000m, measuring the temperature and salinity of the water around it and then coming back to the surface to send its data back via the satellite network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Blue Planet Odyssey\" href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/sail-the-odyssey\/blue-planet-odyssey\/\">Blue Planet Odyssey<\/a>\u00a0fleet will be leaving the Galapagos Islands on March 10th for one of their\u00a0longest legs \u00a0&#8211; \u00a02980 nautical miles to the Marquesas Islands. Libby will be deploying the floats in specific locations along the route. Watching with especial interest are the\u00a03rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes of Wildcat Mountain Elementary School in the state of Colorado, not far from Terry and Dena&#8217;s home town. The school is following Libby&#8217;s route around the world as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/ocean\/education\/\">Sail the Odyssey education program.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22025\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0052_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22025\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22025\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0052_2.jpg\" alt=\"Argo float ready for deployment from Libby\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0052_2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0052_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0052_2-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Argo float ready for deployment from Libby<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other <a title=\"Blue Planet Odyssey\" href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/sail-the-odyssey\/blue-planet-odyssey\/\">Blue Planet Odyssey<\/a>\u00a0yachts will deploy <a href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/ocean\/science\/the-odyssey-sailors-deploy-global-drifter-buoys\/\">drifter buoys<\/a>\u00a0west of the Galapagos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/ocean\/science\/argo-floats\/\">Visit our page on Argo floats for more information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before they left San Diego last month, Terry and Dena filmed their visit to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography to see how the Argo floats are manufactured, with Michael McClune who is Principal Development Engineer along with Argo specialist John Gilson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/119437823\" width=\"680\" height=\"382\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/sail-the-odyssey\/blue-planet-odyssey\/participants\/meet-the-participants\/#Libby\">Sailing yacht Libby<\/a>, crewed by Terry and Dena Singh, and taking part in the <a title=\"Blue Planet Odyssey\" href=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/sail-the-odyssey\/blue-planet-odyssey\/\">Blue Planet Odyssey<\/a>, took onboard eight Argo floats in San Diego for deployment in the Pacific &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/2015\/02\/libbys-tour-scripps-argo-float-lab-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[153,156],"odyssey":[143],"destinations":[205,242],"class_list":["post-21078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unser-ozean-blog","tag-wissenschaft","tag-treibbojen","odyssey-bpo-de","destinations-pazifischer-ozean","destinations-galapagos-de","odd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22129,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21078\/revisions\/22129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21078"},{"taxonomy":"odyssey","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odyssey?post=21078"},{"taxonomy":"destinations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destinations?post=21078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}