During the 1994 season, IIP success- 

 fullydeployed 1 10Air-deployable expendable 

 BathyThermographs (AXBTs), which mea- 

 sure temperature with depth and transmits the 

 data back to the aircraft. Temperature data 

 from the AXBTs were sent to the Canadian 

 Meteorological and Oceanographic Center 

 (METOC) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 

 the U.S. Naval Atlantic Meteorology and 

 Oceanography Center (NLMOC) in Norfolk, 

 Virginia, and FNMOC for use as inputs into 

 ocean temperature models. IIP directly ben- 

 efits from AXBT deployments by having im- 

 proved ocean temperature data provided to its 

 iceberg deterioration model. IIP also provided 

 weekly drifting buoy sea surface temperature 

 (SST) and drift histories to METOC and NLMOC 

 for use in water mass and SST analyses. 

 Canada's Maritime Command/ Meteorologi- 

 cal and Oceanographic Centre provided the 

 AXBT probes for IIP use. IIP greatly appreci- 

 ates the valuable support given by METOC for 

 this program. The data collected significantly 

 increases regional knowledge of circulation 

 patterns and improves the capability to predict 

 iceberg deterioration. 



On April 15, 1994, IIP paused to re- 

 memberthe 82nd anniversary of the sinking of 

 the RMS TITANIC. During an ice reconnais- 

 sance patrol, two memorial wreaths were 

 placed near the site of the sinking to com- 

 memorate the nearly 1 500 lives lost. On that 

 same day, IIP committed the cremated re- 

 mains of Mrs. Ruth Becker Blanchard. (a Ti- 

 tanicsurvivor)totheseanearthedisastersite. 



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