Celtic Explorer CE13001
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Celtic Explorer (45CE) |
| Cruise identifier | CE13001 |
| Cruise period | 2013-01-05 — 2013-01-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Galway, Ireland |
| Port of return | Galway, Ireland |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The plan for OSMOSIS is to deploy ocean gliders in pairs for a period of a full year. Each glider deployment will last for four months. Careful monitoring and planning will be required to maintain sufficient battery power throughout the four months. Initial estimates seem to show that the 10V science battery will most likely be the limiting factor. Cruise CE13001 was on board the R/V Celtic Explorer. The plan was to depart from Galway, Ireland on 5th January 2013 and steam to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) monitoring station, collecting a Meteorological buoy, which had become detached from it's mooring, before arriving at the PAP site to recover Seagliders SG533 and SG566, deploy two gliders from SG510, SG502 and SG579 and take measurements for dissolved Oxygen, Chlorophyll a and Nutrients to calibrate the sensors on the Seagliders. |
| Chief scientist | Glenn Nolan (Marine Institute Galway) |
| Project | Fluxes Across Sloping Topography of the North East Atlantic (FASTNEt) |
| Cruise report |  (0.24 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.10 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Celtic Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | South, southwest, west and northwest of Ireland. Continental Shelf, Rockall Bank, Porcupine Bank. |
