Because we packed our gear within the confines of airline luggage, we are assembling here in Vietnam some of the larger equipment needed for our field work.  The video below shows stainless steel pipe being cut at a storefront in Saigon’s District 11, which is also Chinatown.  We will bolt the pipe to a flanged mounting bracket (that was small enough to fit in luggage) built by UW Oceanography engineering services.  Fully assembled, this mount will support our ADCP–acoustic Doppler current profiler–which measures water velocity from a moving boat and which we will use extensively on the Mekong River in the coming days.