RV Atlantic Explorer AE1833
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Atlantic Explorer (33H4) |
| Cruise identifier | AE1833 |
| Cruise period | 2018-11-17 — 2018-12-03 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Fort Pierce, United States |
| Port of return | Fort Pierce, United States |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objectives
1. Service (recover and redeploy) 3 tall current meter moorings and 1 short ("bottom-lander") mooring located off the eastern Bahamas along latitude 26.5°N 2. Retrieve data from 6 pressure-equipped inverted echo sounders (PIES) by underwater acoustic telemetry, and recover and redeploy one C-PIES (a PIES with integrated deep current meter) 3. Conduct CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) and Lowered ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) sections across the Florida Current at 27°N, the Northwest Providence Channel, and along the 26.5°N RAPID-MOCHA western boundary line east of Abaco, Bahamas 4. Perform two additional deep-water CTD casts to calibrate moored instrumentation 5. Recover a deep glider operated by the University of Washington along the Abaco 26.5°N line 6. Perform additional work including a shipboard ADCP survey of the Antilles Current and/or CTD/LADCP stations along the 26°N Florida Current section as time permits Narrative in attached cruise report. |
| Chief scientist | William E Johns (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science) |
| Cruise report |  (1.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North West Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Florida Straits, East of Abaco Island, Northwest Providence Channel |