Our fish, containing the seismic instruments, is loaded on the R/V Gyre before one of our Deep-tow cruises. During the survey, the fish will be towed up to 6000 m behind the vessel at an altitude of ~ 30 m off the seafloor.
Deep Tow Cruise, May 1-10
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Cruise description
We conducted a high resolution seismic survey of the furrows along the Sigsbee Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico by means of our new deep-tow system that includes chirp side scan sonar and a chirp subbottom profiler. More information on the cruise objective and on the Gulf of Mexico furrows can be found in our JIP proposal.
We sailed on the R/V Gyre, the TAMU vessel, with approximately 20 graduate students and 3 professors.
Area of study:
List of partecipants:
Faculty: Dr. William Bryant, Dr. Arnold Bouma
Graduate students (alphabetiacal order): Daniel Bean, Debora Berti, William Cain, Leigh Holcombe, Shari Kronforst, Donald Maddox, Mary Patch, Andres Pazmino, Christina Stover, Masako Tominaga, Rachel Via, Suzanne Zick
Sonardyne representative: Ralph Gall