What a lovely day. Nothing like grey ocean and cloudy skies. We don't see beauties like this very often out here. We had lots of trouble on this and the previous station. At about 2200 meters on station 209 the primary conductivity sensor started reading -10. This shut both pumps down on the CTD. That pretty much ended the cast, so we brought it straight aboard without tripping any bottles. We're kind of in a time crunch, so we just abandoned the station and moved on. Scott took the problem-prone CTD out of the rosette and rigged up a new one. Station 210 was the new CTD's inagural cast. We started down, but no plots appeared on the console computer. Not until the CTD was at 175 meters did the program start plotting, though it thought that the CTD was at the surface. We had the wrong configuration files. We still managed to hobble down to the bottom. We hadn't tested the bottles, so there were some worries that they wouldn't close. They all did fine. Karen, the cook, brought out scrumptious pecan rolls for us this morning. Dan taught me how to play cribbage after watch. He won the first game, but I took the second. I nearly double skunked him.
