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Cruise Report: OER FFO FY14 BOP, Search for the Lost Whaling Fleets of the Western Arctic
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2016
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Description:The “Search of the Lost Whaling Fleets of the Western Arctic” conducted systematic and comprehensive seabed mapping surveys of an area of the Chukchi Sea coast that was the site of the abandonment of 33 whaling ships caught in the sea ice in 1871. Before the mission, this nearshore area was largely unexplored and poorly mapped. The purpose of the cruise was to determine if any wreckage of these lost ships was present in the survey area after 144 years, and if so, to assess and document its status and condition. Consistent with the planned survey, approximately 50 sq. km. of seabed was mapped using side scan sonar and magnetometry, and three sites were identified and documented that contained wreckage from at least two of these whaling ships lost in during the period whaling was conducted in this area (around 1850 until the beginning of the 20th Century). In addition, magnetometry data suggests that wreckage may be buried in areas where magnetic anomalies were concentrated.
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