Glider Launches

Although not RU29, I took part in the launching of glider RU28, I hope this post can show what a typical glider launch is about.

To start we drove to the Belmar Marina in Belmar, NJ, there we unloaded a truck with all of our equipment and met with a local captain that would take us to a designated launching point off the coast. On this trip we had three main pieces of equipment to use, the glider, a drifter and a CastAway.

The glider is described in past posts, the drifter passively collects data from the currents and sends its location from a onboard GPS back to Rutgers, and the CastAway collects temperature, dissolved oxygen among others.

The glider is the exact same as RU29, the drifter was made by a local middle school's science class, and the cast away is standard measurement to take.

                                               With the DIY drifter

                                               Preparing the CastAway

         

                                                           Launching

                                                     RU28