between 8 and 23 July 1 993. The objective of 

 the cruise was to provide surface tmth for an 

 evaluation of the iceberg detection and iden- 

 tification ability of the APS-137 Forward 

 Looking Airborne Radar (FLAR). 



During the 1993 season, IIP success- 

 fully deployed 37 Air-deployable expendable 

 BathyThermographs (AXBTs). The AXBT 

 measures temperature with depth and trans- 

 mits the data back to the aircraft. Temperature 

 data from the AXBTs were sent to the Cana- 

 dian Meteorological and Oceanographic Cen- 

 ter (METOC) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 

 the U.S. Naval Eastern Oceanography Center 

 (NEOC) in Norfolk, Virginia, and FNOC foruse 

 as inputs into ocean temperature models. IIP 

 directly benefits from AXBT deployments by 

 having improved ocean temperature data pro- 

 vided to its iceberg deterioration model. IIP 

 also provided weekly drifting buoy sea surface 

 temperature (SST) and drift histories to METOC 

 and NEOC for use in water mass and SST 

 analyses. Canada's Maritime Command/ Me- 

 teorological and Oceanographic Centre pro- 

 vided the AXBT probes for I IP use, significantly 

 increasing the temperature data IIP could 

 obtain. 



On April 15. 1993, IIP paused to re- 

 member the 81st 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 neariy 1500 lives lost. 



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