Wednesday, October 8, 1986

ICE, WIND & SEALIFE

By SARAH THOMPSON,
Review Staff Writer.

The local crew’s
hydrographic research trip to
the Arctic on Fisheries’ ice-
breaker John P. Tully was one
of the best ever taken, says
senior . hydrographer .. Mike
Woods of Saanichton. :

The Tully left Pat Bay under
Capt. Bernie Newton July 6 and
set out from Victoria the
following day.

Woods said the vessel passed
through the. Aleutian Islands
July 14 and arrived. at the
workplace 11 days later.

Easy weather conditions con-
tributed to the success of the
trip, he said, noting there were
few --down..: periods: unlike
previous journeys when the ship
lodged in ice for days. .

“‘Normally, on the: way: in

and. out, we. would encounter
fairly heavy ice off the coast of
Alaska at Point Barrow. This
year, we hardly. encountered
any — only 2.5 miles going into
Tuktoyatuk and none coming
out.
_ Last year was really bad; the
whole. season. stayed. (iced)
within 20-25 miles within shore.
This year, the ice was 200 miles
‘out with very few. storms,’’
Woods noted.

The researchers were assigned

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four main jobs while i in ‘the Arc-

tic:
'- During. the ‘trip. north,
‘hydrographers took echo soun-
dings :and  magnotometer
-readings. for ‘global bar-.

thymetric charts of the oceans: |

: Ministry of energy, mines and
“resources request. an. ongoing
study of changing patterns. of
‘the earth’s ma gnetic fields and
the mineral deposits. in sea beds,
explained Woods. Constant

monitoring is necessary as the.

north magnetic pole is constant-

ly moving and charts vary ac-

cording to. true. and magnetic
north readings.
The second stage of the Tul-

ly’s cruise was the surveying of

an. oil patch in the central’
‘Beaufort: Sea from: July 26 to
Aug. 2b.

“Daring: ‘this: period, “crews
worked . around. _the Clock.

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CAPTAIN BERNIE NEWTON surveys the sophisticated
equipment in the wheelhouse.

operating three launches for 16 -
-hours per shift.

Their tasks were to runa grid
of sounding lines inthe area

“Where oil companies propose to...
build pipelines’. from the. oil ’
_patch.to the north coast of the

Mainland, Woods said.

The primary purpose of the
second phase was to update and
make..modern -surveys of the
area.

greater line spacing and the

details of the sea floor was not.

fully explained, oe
An. important discovery as ‘a

result of this hydrography Wiis
the extent of the existence of

pingo-like. features on. the ocean

bed.

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TAKING A REST. The Institute of ‘Ocean Sciences research vessel, the John P.
‘Tully is in port for a few more days before heading north again.

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‘“Fhese pingos are hammocks
of ice that rise 15 to 20 feet
above the surrounding sea
floor. The old surveys missed a
lot of those. features which are
possible undiscovered hazards
in the Beaufort Sea.’’: Woods
revealed.

‘‘We attempted to find them
all and make the area safe.”’

The third phase of the
research project was a specializ-
ed survey of dump site areas for
the metallic waste. of oil com-

_ panies.

During their extensive sampl-
ing and scanning, Woods said,
“it was one of the most in-
teresting features because we
found.a variety of sea life not

_ known to exist in those waters.

‘“‘We. found everything from
small octopi to strange varieties
of starfish called basket stars
which look a bit like sea
anenome.”’

Some samples will go. to the
Royal. Ontario. Museum and
some to the National Museum
in Ottawa, Woods said.

. The last phase of the 12-week
arctic cruise involved working

_-with Steve Blasco from the Bed-

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ford Institute of Oceanography
defining the geology of the. bed
of the Beaufort Sea.

‘Woods has .made the nor-
thern trip seven times but he.

says this year was one of the
best.

““We saw lots. of whales —
quite -a- pod of bowhead and
beluga whales. And ‘we did see a
couple. of walruses into . the
Chukchi Sea.’’

Crewmembers had one scary’
night riding five- to eight-meter
* waves with wind blowing 35 to

. 40 knots from the north-west: .

‘““We had to drag in the an-

chor because it wouldn’t hold... f°

We had to steam into the storm

until it stopped,”’

recollected...
Perhaps the. best part of the

trip was ‘the. hot-tub thoughtful-.

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