USGS OFR01-154: Cruise Report

U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-154

Cruise Report - R/V Gosnold 45

PURPOSE:	Bottom sampling and photography to test the camera in the big bucket.
DESTINATION:	Atlantic shelf and slope Cape Hatteras to Key West Miami to Charleston
DATES: TIME ZONE:	15 May 1964 1006 to 30 June 1964 0540 EDT
SCIENTIFIC PARTY:	R. M. Pratt (WHOI), in charge 15 May - 29 June J. R. Frothingham (WHOI) 15 May - 29 June J. V. Trumbull (USGS) 15 May - 10 June F. T. Manheim (USGS) 15 May - 8 June Roger Theroux (BCF) 15 May - 8 June Edward Pastula (Florida State Univ.) 27 May - 8 June A.R. Tagg (USGS) 8 June - 29 June D. J. Stanley (WHOI), Summer Fellow) 8 June - 29 June Henry Jensen (BCF) 8 June - 29 June Robert Wait (USGS, Brunswick, Ga.) 9 June - 19 June Charles Hoi lister (Lament) 19 June - 29 June
TOOLS:	Campbell bottom sampler continuous echo sounding on 400 m. scale except June 10, 11, 12, and 13 BT Forel colors Sechii weather etc. on every station where feasible Drift bottles & sea bed drifters - 5 at each station between 28^oN. & 33^oN. in less than 100 fathoms
STATIONS:	1415 to 1895
SUMMARY:	Summary of time schedule: Days/Hours/Minutes Steaming and stations: 33/15/47 Time scheduled docking: 5/20/42 Down for repairs: 2/12/43 Time to and from ports: 3/12/53 Time lost for weather: 0/0/0
CRUISE NARRATION:	May 1964 15 1964 - Depart Woods Hole 1006, rain - steam all day 16 - Start sampling 1524, clear & cool - 1415-1419 (5) 17 - Warm and sunny, turtles - 1420-1434 (15) 18 - Cape Hatteras, trouble with camera - 1435-1448 (14) 19 - Cape Fear, warm & hazy - 1449-1464 (16) 20 - Start: drift bottles, radar out - 1465-1478 (14) 21 - Warm, haze, inshore green water - 1479-1494 (16) 22 - Jacksonville, Fla., down the coast - 1495-1509 (15) 23 - Offshore spring, inshore Fla. coast - 1510-1522 (13) 24 - Cape Canaveral, blue Gulf Streamwater, 1st carbonate sediments - 1523-1538 (16) 25 - Florida coast, shallow stations - 1539-1555 (17) 26 - Dock Miami 0900 - 1556-1560 (5) 27 - Miami-fix camera, and radar bearing; rewire bucket 28 - Depart Miami, main engine bearing burnt - 1561-1564 (4) 29 - Return Miami, fix main engine 30 - Depart Miami 1930, steam for next station south 31 - Very hot, off Fla. Keys, Key West - 1565-1576 (12) June 1964 1 - Zig-zag across Gulf Stream, mn. Glob. ooze - 1577-1589 (13) 2 - Hot & humid, offshore Miami, rugged topog - 1590-1603 (14) 3 - Miami in sight, rain squalls - 1604-1617 (14) 4 - Shelf stations, cross-section of the Fla. Straits - 1618-1633 (16) 5 - Rough seas, coral banks on the Blake Plateau - 1634-1646 (13) 6 - Heavy rain, run onto shelf to avoid rough seas - 1647-1658 (12) 7 - On shelf, big swell, bucket broke, switch to Van Veen - 1659-1670 (12) 8 - Dock Charleston -1671-1672 (2) 9 - Charleston, fix bucket and camera 10 - Depart Charleston. PDR out - 1673-1677 (5) 11 - Head south, shelf stations; PDR out. - 1678-1690 (13) 12 - Routine sampling, ripped plankton net, PDR out - 1691-1705 (15) 13 - Routine sampling, camera stopped, PDR fixed 14 - Started deep-water stations, coral, glob. ooze 15 - Gulf Stream, hot, coral banks and ooze 16 - Zig-zag on to shelf, glauconite 17 - Work toward. Charleston, rough, tide rips 18 - Dock Charleston 0955 19 - Charleston fix camera and plkton net, hot 20 - Depart Charleston, shelf stations 21 - N-S lines toward Cape Lockout, mn. 22 - N-S lines toward Cape Fear, phosphate, glauc. 23 - Routine shelf station, deep ones on Blake 24 - Blake Ridge, too deep for bucket so changed to Van Veen 25 - Clear and cool, thunder storms. Cape Lockout 26 - Deep water of Hatteras, choppy, last carbonate sediments 27 - Round Hatteras, head for Cape May 28 - Routine shelf sampling, rough in morning, cool 29 - Steam for Woods Hole all day 30 - Dock Woods Hole 0540

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