June 13, 2022

Shark camera cable inspection Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riy_85VmBsY Got the cables unwrapped with a SCUBA dive yesterday! Also last night woke up and tracked the moon with our new AXIS helipad camera! It has some amazing zoom! With the cables freed,

June 9, 2022

Shark Cable Inspection Part 1

https://youtu.be/Bu0GFvYnWJg We have the shark camera ready to go back down and now need to get the cables repaired. I tried to pull them up, but they were stuck! After a bit of looking

October 2, 2020

Volunteering takes patience, and luck (part 1)

Dan back on standby… (part 1)  It was raining when I opened the window shade and gazed out into the grey day.  I looked at the radar on my phone and saw that it

May 2, 2020

Install Seafloor Mooring and Buoy System

The sea floor around the Frying Pan Tower is a protected reef nearly a mile in diameter. This means the sea floor below has restrictions on dragging objects like anchors across it or other

May 2, 2020

Replace Cathodic Protection System

Basic chemistry comes into play when you place a steel structure into a salt bath and watch the long-term effects of galvanic corrosion over several years! Since the tower is grounded deep into the