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Samoylov 2014: Learning the patience
(Photo: Sofia Antonova) Julia is trying the diving equipmentThursday, 31st of July 2014
The first working day for our group was on Samoylov. Julia, Steffen and me had to find temperature loggers in the lakes.
Thanks to Waldemar we have enough rubber boats and we didn't have to carry the boat from the one lake to another. Weather was fine, mosquitoes were annoying like we were the last warm blooded creatures on Earth, in a word - boating was indeed enjoyable.
The loggers are fixed on the rope and the whole construction is installed into the water vertically with the help of a heavy anchor.
The only hint for the sensors location we had was the GPS coordinate of the point where the loggers were installed. But as you may know the spring flood was prominent this year and most likely even the heavy anchor was dragged over the bottom away from its initial point.
We made circles around the point, tried to "fish" loggers with the big hook, looked into the water with diving goggles, but nothing helped - we failed the first three lakes unfortunately.
That is how I learned to take the fails in the field easy.
The fourth lake requited us with the finding and that is how I learned to be patient :). For the next try I suppose we will use the echosounder.
In the evening we had banya! The best thing for relaxing after the day in the field!
Written by Sofia