Description
The ship will conduct 24 hour operations consisting of daytime
ROV dives and evening/nighttime mapping operations including during transit.
During this cruise we will conduct primarily 8 hour ROV dives with occasional 10
or 12 hour dives on particularly interesting or deep water dive sites, as
staffing allows. ROV operations will focus in depths between 250 and 6,000
meters and will include high-resolution visual surveys and limited sample
collection. Mapping operations will be conducted in 250m of water and deeper,
and include transit and overnight multibeam, water column backscatter, and
sub-bottom data collection. CTD rosette operations are requested at several
sites to inform ROV dives, and may be requested opportunistically at selected
sites where collecting the data is considered important to understanding the
physical or chemical properties of the overlying water
column.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| OER Digital Atlas | HTML | mapsOE.htm | Open resource |
Tags
- biodiversity
- davisville rhode island
- deep-sea corals
- deep sea corals coral communities hydrothermal vent communities mud volcanoes trench habitats subduc
- expedition exploration explorer marine education noaa ocean ocean discovery ocean education ocean ex
- habitat characterization
- international waters
- marine protected areas
- prime crust zone commonwealth of the northern marianas islands cnmi marianas trench marine national
- sampling operations
- seafloor mapping
- seamounts
- seeps and vents
- submersibles
- telepresence
- trenches
- tropical east pacific