WHOI Inst.

Completed

Neil Armstrong

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · USA

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PortPlanned routeStation

Planned route: 2 segments · ~2 days steaming · 1 station

Operating area: Gulf Stream of the Coast of Cape Cod

Route: Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United States → Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United States

Aug 23 – Aug 30, 20257 days at seaactual: departed Aug 23, 2025, arrived Aug 30, 2025

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Neil Armstrong

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Virus Export-Northwest Atlantic (NWA) — NW Atlantic NES-LTER-2025-3of4 — New England Shelf WHOI Inst. +1 — Gulf Stream of the Coast of Cape Cod East Coast SBP (Orange) — US East Coast, Cape Cod to Charleston

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Projects aboard (2)

OOI-Pioneer SEPM Buoy Recovery-2

Recovery of the suface buoy of SEPM-2 which broke free during Hurricane Erin (August 2025) R/V Neil Armstrong was able to recover the adrift mooring buoy on 28 August 2025.

People aboard

OOI-Pioneer SEPM Buoy Recovery-2

Deidra Emrich · Principal investigator

WHOI Inst.

Laura Motta · Principal investigator

Party size: 23

Estimated vacant berths: 11

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

Crane
Stern A-Frame
Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
Overboarding Cable - Fiber Optic
Crane
Stern A-Frame
Navigation - Heading/Position
Dynamic Positioning (DP)
Underway Seawater System
pCO2
Meteorological Data

Pooled / portable

CTD
McLane WTS-LV

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code AR93_Institutional_M · MFP references 25/6412, 25/5920 · synced Sep 30, 2026