The tide has arrived!

And as if by magic water has appeared in the flume! We also have a new team member joining us, Ozzy from Bath university, who will be the multi-beam man! 

Today and yesterday we had instrument testing and software checks. The EMCM's decided to play up and so annoyingly we had to drain the flume again. This time the EMCM was replaced, instruments were again, re-measured in respect to the seabed and the tide was scheduled to arrive.

Rig 1 had re-emerged after the flume was drained in order to fix the EMCM on rig 2.

It was high tide in the flume and the 3D scanning sonar had to be rotated, meaning one brave soul had to go for a swim, and Gerd willingly sacrificed himself! Other than that the rigs, Lidar and the multi-beam are now set and ready for waves in the morning. 

Sadly we said goodbye to Ian, Gerd, Peter and Rafael but we managed to get a team picture before we parted. Hopefully everything will run smoothly tomorrow, fingers crossed!