The Code Bender

Rather than spending the night last night pool testing we opted to sleep and so far today with good reason.  Most of the crew is at least acting a little sleep deprived haha.  We were awake at 6:00 and made a bright and early showing to TRANSDEC to unload SeaWolf at 7:30 this morning.  After getting unloaded we set up our new home away from home (click the picture down at the bottom for more shots) and made a reservation for a 8:00 pool test.  Hoping for the best we hit the water and shortly there after a roadblock, a very nicely corroded connector.  Our previous ethernet tether was a bit of a problematic cable to start with being solid core, but after cracking open the Fischer connector and finding quite a bit of orange (check the pictures) we decided it had done it's duty.  We retired it for a brand new 100ft tether Kevin is currently putting the new connector on.  This should put us up and running in the next few minutes!  We have one more pool test scheduled for 2:00.  On the bright side, during SeaWolf's short lived inaugural west coast swim she did identify the gate!  So we're looking in pretty good shape to qualify.  I'll be sure to find some time after the next pool test to post up about progress.

(PS, jsut got word our torpedo flys 4-6ft!)