RV Pelagia PE360
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Pelagia (64PE) |
| Cruise identifier | PE360 |
| Cruise period | 2012-10-01 — 2012-10-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Het Horntje, Netherlands |
| Port of return | Vigo, Spain |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The planned cruise serves a project funded by the Dutch national Science Foundation (NWO). The focus of this project is to study the physical drivers of hotspot ecosystems such cold-water coral reefs. Work consists of in-situ observations by means of autonomous benthic landers and seabed and water column sampling. |
| Chief scientist | Furu Mienis (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) |
| NPRC |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Belgica Mounds, Logachev mounds, Whittard Canyon Complex |
