diff --git a/clouddrift/adapters/mosaic.py b/clouddrift/adapters/mosaic.py
index 2eb2935f..940f1c0a 100644
--- a/clouddrift/adapters/mosaic.py
+++ b/clouddrift/adapters/mosaic.py
@@ -59,10 +59,11 @@ def get_dataframes() -> tuple[pd.DataFrame, pd.DataFrame]:
         range(len(sensor_ids)), key=lambda k: order_index[sensor_ids[k]]
     )
     sorted_data_urls = [data_urls[i] for i in sorted_indices]
-    buffers = [BytesIO(b"") for _ in range(len(sorted_data_urls))]
-    requests = [(url, BytesIO(b""), None) for url in sorted_data_urls]
+    buffers = [BytesIO() for _ in range(len(sorted_data_urls))]
+    requests = [(url, buffer, None) for url, buffer in zip(sorted_data_urls, buffers)]
 
     download_with_progress(requests, desc="Downloading data")
+    [b.seek(0) for b in buffers]
     dfs = [pd.read_csv(b) for b in buffers]
     obs_df = pd.concat(dfs)
 
diff --git a/clouddrift/adapters/utils.py b/clouddrift/adapters/utils.py
index 6193a2ef..ee5e5013 100644
--- a/clouddrift/adapters/utils.py
+++ b/clouddrift/adapters/utils.py
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 import concurrent.futures
 import logging
 import os
-import traceback
-from collections.abc import Callable, Sequence
 from datetime import datetime
-from io import BufferedIOBase, StringIO
+from io import BufferedIOBase
+from typing import Callable, Sequence
 
 import requests
 from requests import Response
 from tenacity import (
+    RetryCallState,
     WrappedFn,
     retry,
     retry_if_exception,
@@ -17,17 +17,27 @@
 )
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
+
+def _before_call(rcs: RetryCallState):
+    if rcs.attempt_number > 1:
+        src = rcs.args[0]
+        dst = "io-buffer" if isinstance(rcs.args[1], BufferedIOBase) else rcs.args[1]
+        _logger.warn(
+            f"retrying download request for (dst, src): {(src, dst)}, attempt: {rcs.attempt_number}"
+        )
+
+
 _CHUNK_SIZE = 1024
 _logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 _standard_retry_protocol: Callable[[WrappedFn], WrappedFn] = retry(
     retry=retry_if_exception(
         lambda ex: isinstance(ex, (requests.Timeout, requests.HTTPError))
     ),
-    wait=wait_exponential_jitter(initial=1.25), # ~ 20-25 minutes total time before completely failing
+    wait=wait_exponential_jitter(
+        initial=1.25
+    ),  # ~ 20-25 minutes total time before completely failing
     stop=stop_after_attempt(10),
-    before=lambda rcs: _logger.debug(
-        f"calling {str(rcs.fn)}, attempt: {rcs.attempt_number}"
-    ),
+    before=_before_call,
 )
 
 
@@ -150,10 +160,7 @@ def _download_with_progress(
     except Exception as e:
         force_close = True
         error_msg = f"Error downloading data file: {url} to: {output}, error: {e}"
-        _logger.error(error_msg)
-        string_buffer = StringIO("")
-        traceback.print_tb(e.__traceback__, file=string_buffer)
-        _logger.debug(f"tracing details: <<<{string_buffer.getvalue()}>>>")
+        _logger.debug(error_msg)
         raise e
     finally:
         if response is not None:
diff --git a/tests/datasets_tests.py b/tests/datasets_tests.py
index ce6f16b8..cc24cb0f 100644
--- a/tests/datasets_tests.py
+++ b/tests/datasets_tests.py
@@ -58,3 +58,7 @@ def test_andro_opens(self):
     def test_yomaha_opens(self):
         with datasets.yomaha() as ds:
             self.assertTrue(ds)
+
+    def test_mosaic_opens(self):
+        with datasets.mosaic() as ds:
+            self.assertTrue(ds)