Cruise plan, EX1802 ; Ocean Exploration & Research ;

Kennedy, Brian R.C.

United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration., Office of Ocean Exploration and Research,

"This document contains project instructions for EX-18-02. Operations for this cruise will be conducted 24 hours/day and consist of several emerging technology demonstration projects as well and deep sea mapping shakedown and operations. The expedition will commence on March 23, 2018 in Pascagoula, Mississippi (30° 20.355'N, 88° 34.499'W) and conclude on April 5, 2018 in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Operations will include the use of the ship's deep water mapping systems (Kongsberg EM302 multibeam sonar, EK60 split-beam fisheries sonars, Knudsen 3260 chirp sub -bottom profiler sonar, and Teledyne Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler), and XBT casts in support of multibeam sonar mapping operations, and the ship's high -bandwidth satellite connection for continuous rea l-time ship-to -shore communications. Operations are planned in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Emerging technologies components of this cruise will be in partnership with the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration Research and Technology (CIOERT) at Flo rida Atlantic University and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Newport RI. "--Page 2.

Project Instruction

Mexico, Gulf of