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Cornide de Saavedra RADPROF0809

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)Cornide de Saavedra (29CS)
Cruise identifierRADPROF0809
Cruise period2009-08-11 — 2009-08-22
StatusCompleted
Port of departureSantander, Spain
Port of returnVigo, Spain
PurposeResearch
ObjectivesDeployment of two bottom pressure recorder moorings off Cape Finisterre and two more off Cape Mayor as part of the RAPID-WAVE project.
Chief scientistGuillermo Diaz del Río (Spanish Institute of Oceanography, La Coruna Oceanographic Centre), Miguel Angel Morales Maqueda (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory)
ProjectRAPID-WAVE
Coordinating bodyNatural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Cruise reportCornide de Saavedra RADPROF0809 cruise report cornidedesaavedra0809.pdf (1.54 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralBay of Biscay
SpecificFinisterre (Fitzroy) and Bay of Biscay off Santander, Spain.
Moorings, landers, buoys 
Physical oceanography 
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder)43° 45' 35" N  3° 45' 29" W — Site Mareografo 2: RL09-Bottom Pressure Recorder, deployed into 1749 m, 11-08-2009, 13:01
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder)43° 43' 47" N  3° 45' 29" W — Site Mareografo 1: RL14-Bottom Pressure Recorder, deployed into 1113 m, 11-08-2009, 13:50
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder)43° 0' 11" N  9° 40' 53" W — Site Mareografo 4: TRL02-Bottom Pressure Recorder, deployed into 1736 m, 16-08-2009, 03:29
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder)43° 0' 5" N  9° 34' 35" W — Site Mareografo 3: TRL03-Bottom Pressure Recorder, deployed into 1129 m, 16-08-2009, 02:28
Data held at BODC Get data
Series/Profiles 
3  Bottom pressure sensor tide gauge
Reference numbers
Date and time
Temperature of the water column
Sea level
Reference numbers
Date and time
Temperature of the water column
Sea level

BODC idDate/TimeLocationDoc.
11928762009-08-11 18:22:30  — 2010-09-01 16:21:25 43° 45' 35" N  3° 45' 29" W  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 1192876
11929072009-08-16 08:52:30  — 2010-08-31 03:07:05 43° 0' 14" N  9° 40' 51" W  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 1192907
11928522009-08-11 19:07:30  — 2010-09-01 15:22:01 43° 43' 46" N  3° 45' 29" W  View metadata report for BODC series reference number 1192852
Discrete samples 
4  Instrument mooring