South Coast Mooring Cruise on the RV Algoa Voyage 208, July 2014 ...

• Main Author: Oceans and Coastal Research
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment 2017
• Subjects: South Coast Mooring Cruise; Port St Johns eddy; Port St Johns; pelagic spawner biomass; Agulhas Bank; copepod biomass; Calanus agulhensis; planktivorous fish; Benguela Current; Agulhas Current; Walker Bay; Mossel Bay; Port Alfred; Algoa; Algoa 208; sailing orders; cruise report; Port Edward
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15493/dea.mims.26052225; https://api.odp.saeon.ac.za/catalog/SAEON/go/10.15493/dea.mims.26052225

The South Coast Mooring Cruise was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 208, 9 to 24 July 2014.Two ADCP current moorings and a thermistor chain were deployed along the Cape Point Monitoring line. Cape Recife ADCP current mooring was recovered. Four ADCP current moorings were recovered and serviced in Algoa Bay. Port St. Johns ADCP current mooring was recovered. Port St. Johns Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (CTD)/bongo survey lines were completed. SVP drifters in the Agulhas Current core were deployed. ALEX real-time surface buoy and current meter mooring of Port Edward were deployed.The South Coast Mooring Cruise had two scientific objectives: (1) Service, maintain and extend the in situ operational oceanography network currently deployed around South Africa and (2) to investigate the dynamics of the Port St Johns eddy and biological implications. Between 1988 and 2011, environmental and plankton sampling was conducted every summer along the South Coast during the annual pelagic spawner biomass surveys. Data ...