ALVIN Engineering Dive
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PortPlanned routeStation
Planned route: 2 segments · ~11 days steaming · 1 station
Operating area: East Pacific Rise
Route: San Diego (California) - United States → Golfito (Puntarenas) - Costa Rica
Jan 11 – Feb 11, 202431 days at seaactual: departed Jan 11, 2024, arrived Feb 11, 2024
Dec 2023
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Projects aboard (3)
ALVIN Engineering Dive
ALVIN engineering dive during Arellano cruise
People aboard
ALVIN Engineering Dive
- Rick Chandler · Principal investigator
- Shawn Arellano · Chief scientist
Unique Ecosystems on Inactive Sulfides
- Lauren Mullineaux · Principal investigator
Larvae-Biolfilms FALL
- Shawn Arellano · Principal investigator
Party size: 17
Estimated vacant berths: 20
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Crane
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
- Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
Pooled / portable
- Other Seafloor Sampling Equipment
- WHOI MISO Camera System
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code AT50-20 · MFP references 23/4023, 21/852, 21/126 · synced Sep 30, 2026