ALOHA Cabled Observatory Service - 2024
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PortPlanned routeMooring / vehicle
Planned route: 2 segments · ~20 hours steaming · 1 station
Operating area: Station ALOHA 22d 45m N, 158d 0m W
Route: Honolulu (Hawaii) - United States → Honolulu (Hawaii) - United States
Mar 30 – Apr 5, 20256 days at seaactual: departed Mar 30, 2025, arrived Apr 5, 2025
Projects aboard (3)
Jason engineering - Sikuliaq
24 hrs. of Jason engineering time to piggy-back on the ALOHA Cabled Observatory Service - 2024 project - SME 22/1574 in March '25. Preferably to take place before operations for the start of the primary project.
People aboard
Jason engineering - Sikuliaq
- Matt Heintz · Chief scientist
- Kevin Kavanagh · Principal investigator
DWS 3
- Jeff Book · Principal investigator
ALOHA Cabled Observatory Service - 2024
- Jim Potemra · Principal investigator
Party size: 15
Estimated vacant berths: 9
Equipment
Aboard the vessel
- Overboarding Cable - Fiber Optic
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Stern A-Frame
- Acoustic Centerboard/Drop Keel/Transducer Pole
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
- Ship Fitted Winches & Wires
- Crane
- Stern A-Frame
- Navigation - Heading/Position
- Dynamic Positioning (DP)
- Underway Seawater System
- Meteorological Data
- Echosounder, 12kHz
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 250-350m (e.g. 150kHz)
- ADCP/UHDAS – range 500-750m (e.g. 75kHz)
- Multibeam - Deep Water (EM122, EM124)
- Ultra-Short Base-Line Acoustic Navigation System
- Overboarding Cable - Fiber Optic
Pooled / portable
- Gyrocompass
Science party brings
- Portable Laboratory Vans/Containers - Science Supplied
- Science-provided vans ×4
Schedule data from UNOLS Marine Facilities Planning · operator cruise code SKQ2025-08S · MFP references 24/5221, 25/5606, 22/1574 · synced Sep 30, 2026