The float was launched in a triad with NPS#84 and NPS#85 in an across-shore row with the nearest to shore point about 31 km distant from Pfeiffer Point, a distance between points in the row was about 17 km.
After the launch the float was entrained in the undercurrent but travelled there for 9 days only. On September 19, 2000 the float turned offshore in about 75 km from the launching point. It became entrapped in a cyclonic-like movement for ~245 days (Figure 2). This feature had a diameter of about 150 km centered at approximately (35°N,122.5°W). The float trajectory included two smaller scale cyclonic loops with diameter of ~20-30 km and period of ~15-20 days at approximately (36.6°N,122.1°W) and (35.0°N, 122.8°W).
On May 23, 2001 the float was again entrained by the undercurrent about 25 km from the launching point and travelled there for 118 days (Figure 1). On September 16, 2001 the float left the undercurrent north of Cape Mendocino. While moving north-west the float made to small anticyclonic loops, then entered an anticyclonic eddy on October 22, 2001 (Figure 4):
Number of loops 9 Diameter, km 54.3 Duration, days 67.5 Period, days 7.5 Swirl velocity, cm/s 26.3 Translation velocity, cm/s 2.2 Direction, degrees 290 Rossby number 0.10
and remained there till the end of the mission.
The float was ballasted for 275 dbar and initially the float settled down at 243.7±3.6 dbar.
The float was recovered off Newport, OR on February 21, 2002.