1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2017-040-FA

Identifier 2017-040-FA
Purpose Recover nanopod (1081) off Sandwich Town Neck Beach.
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Sandwich Town Neck Beach, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, Atlantic Ocean
Summary Recovered nanopod mooring 1081, divers clipped into lifting bridle with line and float. Inspected waverider mooring 1081, cleaned the buoy, dove to termination of bungy cord, determined the small midwater float is still present. Tried to talk to the release, got no response to enable, disable and release.
Info derived time series of currents, waves, pressure
Comments Associated with 2016-052-FA, 2017-007-FA, 2017-001-FA, 2017-012-FA, 2017-013-FA, 2017-019-FA, 2017-025-FA, 2017-037-FA, 2017-040-FA. The data for all is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7B27T6P.
Projects
Platform
Tioga
Length: 60 feet; Beam: 17 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2017-06-12
End Woods Hole, MA 2017-06-12
Days in the field 0.5
Bounds
West -70.4908
East -70.42205817
North 41.78503467
South 41.73478262
Scuba operations Yes

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Christopher R Sherwood
Crew members
Michael Casso
Scientist, Staff
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Marinna A Martini
Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Eric D. Marsjanik
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Ellyn Montgomery
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Time Series
Data type: Navigation, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity