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Voyage - Leg:           KN 173-2
Voyage Dates:           23 Oct - 14 Nov 2003
Chief Sci(s):           Terrence Joyce, William Smethie (Swift)
Address:                Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
                        360 Woods Hole Rd.
                        Mail Stop 21
                        Woods Hole, MA 02543
Phone:                  508-289-2530
Email:                  tjoyce@whoi.edu
Cruise Objective:       Occupy full-depth, high-resolution,
                        WHP-style hydrographi section from
                        Venezuela to Woods Hole along 66W.
                        Approximately 80 stations are planned.
Science Activities:     CTD, ADCP, and Profiling Spectroradiometer casts
Operations Area:        Caribbean & western N. Atlantic
                        11N, 66W to 40N, 70W
                        50 to 6100m

SSSG Tech:             sssg@knorr.whoi.edu
Departure Port:        Port O'Spain, Trinidad
Agent:                 Master
                       R/V Ship Name
                       Attn: Scientist's Name
                       c/o Navarro's Shipping Ltd.
                       78 Wrightson Rd.
                       Port of Spain
                       Trinidad WEST INDIES

                       Contact: Phillip Navarro
                       tel. (868) 625-4324
                       fax: (868) 623-5978
                       email: phillipn@msctt.com
Arrival Port:          Woods Hole Massachusetts
Agent:                 Master R/V Knorr
                       Attn: Scientist's Name
                       c/o WHOI
                       266 Woods Hole Rd.
                       Woods Hole, MA 02543

                       Contact: Jon Alberts
                       tel. (508) 289-2277
                       fax: (508) 457-2185
                       email: jalberts@whoi.edu
Installed Scientific   Seabeam
Equipment:             12 Khz
                       PDR
                       ADCP
                       Deionized Water
                       CTD/Rossette - WHOI CTD back-up to SIO CTD
                       Salinometer, Guildline
                       Fume Hood
                       Refrigerator
                       Chest Freezer
                       IMET Sensors
                       Pinger
WHOI-Provided Science  WHOI CTD will be back up to SIO CTD
Tools:                 WHOI sensors, Temperature, Oxygen, Salinity,
                       Pressure, Fluorometer, Transmissometer
                       CTD Track
                       Air Tuggers for rosette handling
Program-Provided       SIO CTD - 36 place, 12 liter bottles- 3 conductor
Science Tools:         slip rings
                       CO2 Lab Van - 8X20 - Water and Power Required
                       Incubators- 15 gal per min seawater cooling needed
                       with
                       garden hose connections
Shipboard              ADCP, SEABEAM,
Equipment/Nav:
Other Requirements:    Night Work Anticipated, round the clock CTD
                       stations, approx 30 nm apart
                       3 conductor slip rings
                       CTD rosette handling equipment
Notes:                 Possible rendezvous with Venezuelan R/V, will
                       require KNORR
                       zodiac.
                       CTD stations at the 200 meter contour line off
                       Puerto Rico
                       SIO to provide CTD techs and will run oxygens,
                       salts, nutrients, in Analytical lab.
                       Radiometer profiles done at noon each day,
                       hand-deployed on shade free side of ship.
Navy Clearance Status:

Last Modified: 12/13/2006

Check List:          Required?     Comments
US Customs Form      Yes           Customs forms required prior to departure
                                   from Woods Hole
Explosives Clearance No
Isotope Use Approval
Diplomatic Clearance Yes           Venezuela, Bermuda
SCUBA Diving         No