MD RTMM SV 2024
Completed
Planned route: 2 segments · ~25 hours steaming · 1 station
Operating area: MD RTMM
Route: Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States → Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Project aboard
Recover, service, and redeploy a 3 m offshore buoy. Servicing will include data downloads from a suite of oceanographic sensors measuring full water column current measurements as well as waves and meteorological parameters. Batteries will be installed for all sensors and instrumentation and redeployment of the buoy for an additional year of measurements will follow.
People aboard
- Eric Aronchick · Principal investigator
Party size: 4
Estimated vacant berths: 12
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 30m (e.g. 600kHz-1200kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range < 80m (eg. 300kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code Aronchick · MFP reference 23/3680 · synced Sep 24, 2026