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Andromeda Andromeda03_1999

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)Andromeda (68AN)
Cruise identifierAndromeda03_1999
Cruise period1999-03-09 — 1999-03-15
StatusCompleted
Port of departurePortimao, Portugal
Port of returnFaro, Portugal
ObjectivesTo recover all the moorings deployed in an earlier cruise by Auriga.
Chief scientistJohn D Humphery (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory)
ProjectINDIA
Cruise reportAndromeda Andromeda03_1999 cruise report auriga_and_andromeda99.pdf (15.37 MB) 
Moorings, landers, buoys 
Physical oceanography 
Current meters36° 59' 35" N  8° 0' 5" W — Current meter recovered
Current meters36° 57' 36" N  7° 58' 35" W — Current meter recovered
Current meters36° 58' 17" N  7° 58' 11" W — Current meter recovered
Current meters36° 58' 59" N  8° 0' 23" W — Current meter recovered
Surface drifters/drifting buoys36° 57' 59" N  8° 0' 5" W — Wave buoy recovered.
Geology and geophysics 
Bottom photography36° 58' 59" N  7° 59' 6" W — BLISS apparatus recovered