Tiber Metocean Campaign - Rec
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PortPlanned routeMooring / vehicle
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
Sep 3 – Sep 7, 20253 days at seaactual: departed Sep 3, 2025, arrived Sep 7, 2025
Project aboard
Four metocean moorings were deployed in August 2024 in the western GoM to monitor and record subsea and near-bed current profiles.
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
- Pinger, 12kHz
- 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 24/5105 · synced Sep 24, 2026