RV Farnella 1/84
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Farnella (74AE) |
| Cruise identifier | 1/84 |
| Cruise period | 1984-04-26 — 1984-05-21 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | San Diego, United States |
| Port of return | Long Beach, United States |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. Obtain overlapping sidescan sonar coverage from the US-Mexican Border (Latitude approximately 30° 30' N) to Point Conception (Latitude approximately 34° 30'N) and from the shelf edge seaward to the 200 nautical mile limit.
2. Survey as much of the bathymetrically-complex southern California Continental Borderland as possibly by running track lines close together and orientating lines parallel to regional trends of ridges and island platforms. |
| Cruise report |  (0.66 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Pacific Ocean |
| Specific | US West Coast |
| Track charts | (0.10 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of surveys = 1 Description: Leg: 1 Area insonified: 41, 000 nm² GLORIA system was used. Magnetometer used. |
| Magnetic measurements | Quantity: number of surveys = 1 Description: Leg: 1 Area insonified: 41, 000 nm² GLORIA system was used. Magnetometer used. |
