At 9:00 AM, Albert Jones picked up the SCF crew and they proceeded to the Coastguard base in Bridgetown, to prepare the rigging and set up the instrumentation for the CREWS buoy. The Barbados CZMU, including Ian Timothy, Shonée Howell and Richard Suckoo was present, and they were taught in the assembly techniques, including line splicing et cetera. Parallel, they could observe the instrument setup, conducted by Mr. Jones. Furthermore, discussions were held with the travel-lift operator and officers of the Coastguard, about how best to launch the CREWS buoy. Modifications to the standard setup of the travel lift would have to be made, exchanging standard pulleys to smaller ones, in order to balance the CREWS buoy and avoiding tip-over to either side. Another challenge was that the buoy had to be lifted high enough to allow attachment of the counter-weights. No issues were encountered and all aspects of the mission for the day were concluded successfully.
