1975-004-FA (CMHRP activity #480)

Field Activity 1975-004-FA

Identifier

1975-004-FA

Purpose

Deploy mooring #GBK1 (USGS mooring #101) on the southwest part of Georges Bank.

Location

southwestern Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

Mooring #GBK1, AKA #101, was deployed with 3 VACMs and one FILM CM; 2 surface buoys were deployed to bracket the subsurface mooring. Ship track: 410 nm.

Comments

No indication how mooring was recovered on Aug. 23, 1975.

Platform

Spar

Length: 180 ft (55 m); Beam: 37 ft (11 m).

Itinerary

Start	South Portland, ME	1975-05-07
End	South Portland, ME	1975-05-09
Days in the field	2

Bounds

West	-67.58919272
East	-67.07658191
North	40.95962046
South	40.69174358

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Bradford Butman

Crew members

Affiliate principal

John Vermersch - MIT

Affiliate staff

John Vermersch (MIT)

Data types and categories

Data category:	Time Series
Data type:	Mooring (physical oceanography)

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise report	Chief Scientist's cruise report describing ship movement, equipment, personnel, and track map.

Moorings

DEP: 101;

Equipment used

Equipment	Usage description	Data types	Datasets
Bottom platform		Mooring (physical oceanography)	1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1975-004-FA-OM-001	Bottom platform	Georges Bank Sediment mooring data	Ellyn Montgomery