During the 1996 season, IIP successfully 

 deployed 127 Air-deployable expendable 

 BathyThermographs (AXBTs), which measure 

 temperature with depth and transmit 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 Meteo- 

 rology and Oceanography Center (NLMOC) m 

 Norfolk, Virginia, and FNMOC for use as inputs 

 into ocean temperature models. IIP directly ben- 

 efits from AXBT deployments by having improved 

 ocean temperature data provided to its iceberg 

 deterioration model. IIP also provided weekly drift- 

 ing buoy sea surface temperature (SST) and drift 

 histories to METOC and NLMOC for use in water 

 mass and SST analyses. Canada's Maritime 

 Command/Meteorological and Oceanographic 

 Centre provided the AXBT probes for IIP use. IIP 

 greatly appreciates the valuable support given by 

 METOC for this program. The data collected sig- 

 nificantly increases regional knowledge of circu- 

 lation patterns and improves the capability to pre- 

 dict iceberg deterioration. 



On April 15, 1996, IIP paused to remem- 

 ber the 84th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS 

 TITANIC. During an ice reconnaissance patrol, 

 two wreaths were placed near the site of the sink- 

 ing to commemorate the more than 1500 lives 

 lost. 



