East Coast SBP (Orange)

Completed

Neil Armstrong

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution · USA

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PortTrack / waypointPlanned route

Planned route: 10 segments · ~6 days steaming

Operating area: US East Coast, Cape Cod to Charleston

›2 legs· Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United States → Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United States

1Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United States→Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United StatesSep 7 – Sep 22, 2025 · 15 d
2Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United States→Woods Hole (Massachusetts) - United StatesSep 23 – Oct 8, 2025 · 15 d

Sep 7 – Oct 8, 202531 days at seaactual: departed Sep 7, 2025, arrived Oct 8, 2025

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Neil Armstrong

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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 NES-LTER-2025-4of4 — New England Shelf OOI-Pioneer Fall 2025 — Approximately 35-50 nm east of Nags Head, NC

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Project aboard

This cruise is part of a multi-year effort to use the R/V “NEIL ARMSTRONG” to acquire SBP29 data over sites off the East Coast. In 2025 we will concentrate on areas from South Carolina to Massachusetts, including the Blake Ridge Diapir, known gas seep sites on the outer shelf and upper slope, Hudson Canyon, and offshore Massachusetts.

People aboard

Daniel Orange · Principal investigator

Party size: 15

Estimated vacant berths: 19

Equipment

Aboard the vessel

Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
Navigation - Heading/Position
Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
Multibeam - Shallow-water (EM710/712/2040/Seabat 7100)
Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System

Pooled / portable

CTD
XBT
Other Seafloor Sampling Equipment

Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code AR94_East Coast SBP · MFP reference 23/3769 · synced Sep 24, 2026