The rise of the plastic tide

Day 6 in the flume and these early morning starts are starting to take its toll on us...coffee time! (However it is instant coffee, sorry Daniel don't be too disappointed in us!)

Daniel and Chris got a head start on the day and raised the rig up on the foot by 157 mm, causing the vectrino to be raised by 45 mm on rig 1. Hopefully this'll prevent them from being submerged by sand!

Daniel doing some DIY on rig 1.

The flume was drained over the weekend and it as possible to observe the features on the beach. Two bars were clearly distinguishable, however the rigs themselves appear to be preventing sand bar formation on the cross section of the flume.

Sadly the draining of the flume left behind a load of plastic. Even on a man made beach you cannot escape the occurrence of plastic...

Other than that it was a successful day, completing 5 hours of waves and we were able to detect the sand bar migrating seawards. The vectrino was once again buried and rig 1 ended up being right on top of the sand bar causing it to rest on an angle. We're draining the flume overnight so we have the thrilling job of moving the whole rig up in the morning. Hopefully we won't get too wet!