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Oil Tempest 2/97
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |||||||||
Ship name (ship code) | Oil Tempest (VUOT) | ||||||||
Cruise identifier | 2/97 | ||||||||
Cruise period | 1997-12-08 — 1997-12-11 | ||||||||
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 recover and to re-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, MSL - 45 m 150 kHz BB ADCP, MSL - 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 Recovery: 09/12/1997 | ||||||||
Current profiler (eg ADCP) | 7° 40' 11" S 11° 40' 56" E — 300 kHz Workhorse ADCP, MSL - 45 m 150 kHz BB ADCP, MSL - 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: 10/12/1997 | ||||||||
Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
Series/Profiles | |||||||||
1 CTD/STD cast | Reference numbers Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates Reference numbers Salinity of the water column Temperature of the water column Vertical spatial coordinates
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