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Antarctica Reflection
I found that the journal entry on November 2, 2008 was very interesting. It talks about how it has been very cold lately and how the compressor won’t start. They use the compressor to fill air into the scuba tanks for diving so they cannot dive until they get the compressor to work. Ms. Ellwood has tried to pull the starter chord many times to try to make it work, so far they haven’t had any luck. There were many other things going wrong Hal wasn’t working correctly, the generator was having problems, and they were also having equipment problems. They tried to heat it up so that the oil would become unfrozen, that didn’t work the oil didn’t even drip. The team though of alternate options just in case it never started. One of the ideas was disconnecting one end of the umbilical cord and blowing air down to the diver. Then finally after waiting and trying to start the compressor many times it started! The team filled their dive tanks and went for a dive. Ms. Ellwood went down and got Hal. Hal needed to be fixed because it had stopped working during the night. Then the crew brought Hal up and looked at it, to see why it wasn’t working properly. After working on Hal for hours the team had finally fixed it. Then Ms. Ellwood dove back in the diving hole and placed him back in his spot. So far Hal seems to be working great!

Hey Ms. Ellwood have you collected many samples from Hal’s work? If you have collected samples I was wondering what the samples are and if they are useful to your research?
Article posted November 24, 2008 at 10:10 AM •
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