Field Activity 1986-042-FA

Identifier 1986-042-FA
Purpose Recovered upper portion of mooring 314 (instrument 3141), found drifting in the Gulf of Maine.
Location Gulf of Maine, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary The upper portion of mooring 314 (instrument 3141) was found drifting in the Gulf of Maine on or about October 2, 1986 by the crew of the F/V ST. GEORGE. They recovered the drifting gear. The mooring was originally deployed in Rogers Pass (L/L above), but it is not known where the mooring was recovered, and the note in the mooring log book does not state whether the mooring was recovered on October 2, or whether USGS was notified by the F/V ST. GEORGE of recovery on that date. The lower portion of the mooring (3142) was not attached. The instrument was picked up by USGS when the F/V ST. GEORGE returned to port. This Field Activity Report was created to document this serendipitous mooring retrieval. Mooring recovered: 1 (#314, partial - 3141 only, deployed FA 86017 GYRE Aug. 22, 1986).
Info derived Time series data;
Comments Submitted 03/18/2009 by A. Orton for B. Butman and edited on 3/19/2009 by B. Butman.
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Related activities
1986-017-FA: Deployment-recovery
Platform
St. George
fishing vessel
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1986-10-02
End (port not specified) 1986-10-02
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -68.7728
East -68.7628
North 42.5972
South 42.5872

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Bradford Butman
Crew members

Data types and categories

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

Moorings

RCV:3141; DEP:

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
1986-042-FA-OM-001-01 Bottom platform Published Time Series data on Gulf of Maine project website: includes current and temperature data. Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity