Now that the province is back to Modified Alert Level 3, Smart Ice is focusing on operations for now.
Rex Holwell Jr is the Northern Production lead.
He says that they started operations last week.
They were planning to go out today but they may have to wait until tomorrow or Friday, February 11th, depending on how their schedules work.
Smart Ice also held a meeting yesterday, they decided to postpone the Operator training program and Youth training program to next year for everybody’s benefit.
Holwell says he still need to travel to Rigolet, Makkovik, Postville and Nunavut to train the operators.
He also moved the SmartBuoy about 150 meters away from the ship’s track closer to the shore towards Nain so be mindful when travelling from Nain to Natuashish.