Tiber Metocean Campaign
Completed
Planned route: 2 segments · ~43 hours steaming · 1 station
Operating area: US GoM, Approx. 200 nm SW Cocodrie, LA
Route: Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States → Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Project aboard
The purpose of this campaign is to deploy four metocean moorings at various locations in the western Gulf of Mexico. General distance from LUMCON is approximately 200 nm. The moorings are taut and relatively short, ranging in length from 12 m to 90 m long. Approximate water depth for the area is 1200-1300 m. Moorings will measure subsea near bed currents.
People aboard
- Eric Aronchick · Principal investigator
Party size: 3
Estimated vacant berths: 13
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- Echosounder, 3.5kHz CHIRP
- 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 WHG · MFP reference 24/4717 · synced Sep 24, 2026