CRUISE	DATES	LOCATION
MOBY-L256	19-Nov-2016 - 19-Nov-2016	Lanai
Description: MOBY-L256: 19 Nov-2016 MOBY Maintenance Cruise: On 19 November, MOBY261 top arm was recovered which was almost completely sheared off, most likely from a fishing boat strike. It was disassembled and shipped back to Honolulu.
Details: TERYY EMAIL: Hey guys, Steve from Hawaiian Rafting Adventures took Mike and me to the buoy on Saturday and we were able to recover the upper arm. It had been sheered off and was hanging by the electrical tape and a couple of fibers. There was damaged tape about three feet from the collector end of the arm which is probably where it was hit. It was blowing hard trades and thanks to MIke’s rough water free diving skills we attached a carabiner and line to the bail and it was then recovered. We disassembled the arm and shipped the parts back to Honolulu. I didn’t take any in water photos, it was too sketchy, but I have included some photos of the arm back in Lahaina. Terry MIKE EMAIL: Yup. The top arm was sheared off about two feet from the spar, and dangling down, held on seemingly only by the remnants of the arms tape wrapping, and maybe the two hydrolic hoses for the BS fibers. It did not look like there was any damage to the mid arm, but we did not get to look at that closely. The sea conditions were not nice, so the boat could not be tied off the buoy. Terry & I made a couple snorkling runs to get a line attached to the top arms white-wire bale, then the top arm pulled off easily via the line attached to the front cleat on the boat. Terry has some gopro photos of the arm after we returned to the dock. We detached the 4x collector heads which look to be in fein condition - no apparent flooding behind the Lu windows and no obvious dings to the Ed diffusers. We brought back the arm extension sleeves, and the long extension pipes are due to FedEx to HNL today.