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It’s official — we’ve docked and are back on land!! Woohoo! 🥳 Much thanks to the #RVThompson crew for getting us back to San Diego safely @UWOcean @WHOI @Scripps_Ocean

It’s the first day of March and our last full day on the #RVThompson! Tomorrow we will return to San Diego, marking the end of our 45 day cruise and final leg of the Gofar earthquake experiment 👏🏻 @WHOI @Scripps_Ocean @UWOcean #NSF_Funded

So much work goes into getting this boat moving 🚢 Thanks for the engine tour Ben and all the work you and your team do! #RVThompson @UWOcean

GOFAR 2022 SCIENCE MISSION COMPLETE ✅ 14 Sentry dives ✅ 4 days of CSEM towing ✅ 40 OBEM deployments ✅ 87 OBEM and OBS recoveries ☑️ 9 day transit to San Diego @Scripps_Ocean @WHOI @UWOcean #NSF_Funded #RVThompson

Our last OBEM recovery accompanied by a beautiful sunset ☀️ We deployed and recovered a total of 40 of these instruments over the course of a month. Congrats for finishing strong team! Time to transit back to San Diego🚢 @Scripps_Ocean @WHOI @UWOcean #NSF_funded #RVThompson

14 dives later… the last Sentry dive is officially back on deck!!! 👏🏻 Shout out to our amazing Sentry team: Justin, Isaac, Rebecca, Joe, and Zac - you all are the best toucans we could’ve asked for 🐥 Thank you all for your hard work this trip! @DeepSubLab @WHOI @UWOceans

It’s our last day of SCIENCE!!! 😁👏🏻 What we have in store for today: our 14th Sentry recovery, 2 OBEM pickups and…animal costumes! 🦈🦀

Since Sentry had time for 1 bonus dive (dive 14), our on board science team got the chance to help plan it! Pictured is the team reviewing high res bathymetry and mission goals over the ping pong table map 😄 Shout out to our land sci team + @RobLEvansGeo1 for this opportunity!

And just like that - our LAST Sentry dive is in the water!!!! 🤩🎉 Great job Sentry team and #RVThompson crew for 14 successful deployments! Wowza! @WHOI @deepsublab @UWOceans

Good morning from the #Gofar transform ☀️

Can you believe it? The last Sentry dive at G1 is in the water 🎉 Great work Sentry team and #RVThompson crew on another successful deployment! We’ve got one last Sentry dive at G3 and a couple more OBEM pickups before our cruise mission is complete🚢 @WHOI @DeepSubLab @UWOcean

Some pics of todays OBS recovery on G1! Great work @Scripps_Ocean OBS team and @UWOcean #RVThompson crew 💪 only a couple more seismometers left at #Gofar! #NSF_funded

Sentry approaching the boat for recovery 😎 #NSF_funded @WHOI @DeepSubLab @UWOcean

Recovering OBSs while whales swim on starboard @WHOI @Scripps_Ocean @UWOcean #NSF_funded #RVThompson #Gofar

It’s Captain Dave’s birthday 🥳 which means… time for boat games! Events include: water bottle bowling, rotten fruit tossing, and fire suit races. Let the games begin!

The chicken has returned!!! 🐣 Great successful recovery Sentry team and Thompson crew! @WHOI @UWOcean

A pod of pilot whales lead the boat at the bow — they seem to like #gofar as much as we do! ☺️ @UWOcean @Scripps_Ocean @WHOI

Sentry deployment captured beneath the waves 🌊 @WHOI @deepsublab #NSF_funded #RVThompson

Sentry dive 10 of 13 complete 😎 Did you know the Sentry team drives Sentry back to the boat using a remote controlled joystick? Pictured is Isaac doing just that 🎮 — great work on a successful recovery!! @whoi