MD RTMM ES 2025
Completed
Planned route: 2 segments · ~25 hours steaming · 1 station
Operating area: US GoM, Approx. 120 nm S of Cocodrie, LA
Route: Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States → Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Project aboard
Our real time metocean buoy has a power failure in the main battery bank of the surface buoy. We intend to recover the surface buoy, repair the power issue, and then redeploy the surface buoy. We do not intend on recovering the entirety of the mooring, just the surface buoy. Temporary flotation will be deployed in place of the surface buoy to prevent us from having to recover the main mooring line and components.
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
- Meteorological Data
- 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 25/5609 · synced Sep 24, 2026