Oil Tempest 1/97
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | Oil Tempest (VUOT) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | 1/97 | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 1997-09-20 — 1997-09-23 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Luanda, Angola | ||||||||
| Port of return | Luanda, Angola | ||||||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||||||
| Objectives | The principal objective of the cruise on the MV OIL TEMPEST was to deploy a current meter mooring in the Block 17 Girassol, offshore Angola.
A full depth CTD was also carried out to calibrate the salinity of the current meters. The mooring was successfully deployed. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Cathryn Primrose (Fugro GEOS Limited), Robin Stephens (Fugro GEOS Limited) | ||||||||
| Project | Elf Exploration Angola Deep Water Current Measurements | ||||||||
| Coordinating body | Fugro GEOS | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (9.45 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | South East Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) | ||||||||
| Specific | Block 17, Girassol | ||||||||
| Track charts | (0.22 MB) | ||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 1 Description: Temperature, salinity, depth by a Seabird CTD, 0.5s sampling interval | ||||||||
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | 7° 40' 11" S 11° 40' 56" E — 300 kHz Workhorse ADCP, depth 45 m 150 kHz BB ADCP, depth 205 m Current and salinity measured by 4 Aanderaa RCM 7, depths 385, 585, 785, 985 m Current and salinity measured by 2 Aanderaa RCM 8, depths 1185, 1370 m Deployment: 22/09/1997 Recovery: 09/12/1997 | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 CTD/STD cast | Reference numbers Vertical spatial coordinates Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Reference numbers Vertical spatial coordinates Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column
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