The float was launched in a triad with NPS#83 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 and travelled there for 250 days. On May 19, 2001 the float turned offshore just north of Cape Blanco and started moving westward. On June 9, 2001 the float became entrapped in an anticyclonic-like movement for ~226 days (Figure 4).
Number of loops 4 Diameter, km 49.0 Duration, days 226 Period, days 11 Swirl velocity, cm/s 16.2 Translation velocity, cm/s 0.7 Direction, degrees 264 Rossby number 0.07
After leaving this feature, the float moved southward and then turned westward and was moving in a cyclonic feature till the end of its subsurface mission. While moving westward the float made five cyclonic loops with average diameter of ~180 km and period of 45 km (Figure 2).
The float was ballasted for 275 dbar but the real pressure reached by the float was 134.4±38.2 dbar.