Bahaman Hurricanes named Dean

The departure to the Bahamas is set for Friday 17 August. Returning Tuesday 28 August.
It is a biological and optical oceanography submersible operations cruise headed by Primary
Investigator Dr. Sonke Johnsen of Duke University. I am ecstatic to say the least. I will get to
see live samples of deep sea organisms and watch submersible operations first hand. And oh yeah
the Bahamas as a movie set back drop for this adventure flick that is my current life.

However there is a mid-Atlantic tropical depression headed towards the southern Caribbean islands.
It should reach the Antilles by Saturday or Sunday by which time it will probably have grown into
tropical storm Dean. So there is a good chance of a hurricane hitting the Bahamas during our
current schedule.

Don't worry about my safety however as the weather data the ship gets is quite good and
comprehensive allowing them to adjust the schedule and avoid most dangerous storms. It looks right
now like they won't have to cancel the cruise just navigate around it and time it right.

Keep your fingers crossed for me

Here is the Weather Channel's newscast:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid823425597/bclid877032950/bctid959746457

More photos on Photobucket

Flickr has some lame limitations.

Here is the link to my photobucket page:

ncgallagher

Specifically please check out the album of the buoy deployment cruise.
Click the pic:






There are also several cool but short deployment videos on my youtube page.
Here is one of them:

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