Leg 1 crew left the Hawke Channel Tuesday evening, July, 25th. The team conducted activities in 30 stations (ranging in depth from 180m to 560m), involving 144 science operations in addition to multibeam mapping and EK80 mapping of the water column. The below information summarizes activities completed within the marine conservation area.
THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED!
15 deployments
Altered plan from overnight to on-station durations
Interesting habitat observed at station H6
Wolffish and Greenland shark observed at H29
28 deployments
Worked well
15 deployments
great variance in productivity and range of species
27 deployments
Premier tool for quickly surveying benthic habitats
27 deployments (3 depths)
~432L filtered
108 samples (including blanks) collected for future analysis
29 deployments
Great coverage
3 deployments
Limited by conditions, with little ability to target mesopelagic signals