{"id":10,"date":"2026-10-29T07:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/planning-a-survey-around-the-weather\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:38:32","slug":"planning-a-survey-around-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/planning-a-survey-around-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning a survey around the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every survey at sea depends on the weather. Waves, wind and visibility decide whether equipment can be deployed safely and whether the data will be good enough to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Choose the season:<\/strong> plan the field work for the months with the most workable days at your site, and leave a margin in the programme.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Know the limits:<\/strong> each vessel and tool has its own wave and wind limits. Ask for them in the proposal.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Agree how downtime is handled:<\/strong> the proposal should say how waiting on weather is charged and when the plan changes.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Sequence the work:<\/strong> run the tasks that need calm water first when a good window opens, and keep simpler tasks for marginal days.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Read the daily report:<\/strong> it shows progress, weather and any change to the plan, so decisions are made early.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weather cannot be removed from the risk, but it can be planned for. A clear plan agreed before mobilisation keeps everyone working from the same expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather is the biggest uncertainty in any work at sea. These steps keep it from becoming the biggest cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-strata\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}