MD RTMM SV 2025
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PortPlanned routeMooring / vehicle
Planned route: 2 segments · ~25 hours steaming · 1 station
Operating area: US GoM, Approx. 120 nm S of Cocodrie, LA
Route: To be confirmed → Cocodrie (Louisiana) - United States
Apr 12 – Apr 14, 20252 days at seaactual: departed Apr 12, 2025, arrived Apr 14, 2025
Project aboard
Full length compound mooring deployed in the GoM to measure oceanographic currents from surface to nearbed. Surface buoy monitors and records wind speed/direction and wave parameters as well.
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)
Science party brings
- Science-provided vans ×2
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code WHG · MFP reference 24/5106 · synced Sep 24, 2026