obs_mirai

♦Cruise Code

MR06-05 Leg-1 and Leg-2

♦Schedule

Year 2006Oct. 04Departed Sekinehama, Japan (Mirai's mother port)
Leg-1
Oct. 15-16Called at Singapore
Oct. 19Entered Indian Ocean
Oct. 21Arrived at 7.8S, 80.5E and started to deploy Argo floats
Oct. 24Deployed ADCP mooring at 1.5N, 80.5E
Oct. 25Deployed ADCP mooring and m-TRITON buoy at 0, 79E
Oct. 26Deployed ADCP mooring at 1.5S, 80.5E/td>
Oct. 27Deployed ADCP mooring and m-TRITON buoy at 0, 82E
Oct. 28Started stationary intensive observation at 0, 80.5E
Nov. 21End of observation at 0N, 80.5E
Nov. 22Recovered ADCP mooring and m-TRITON buoy at 0, 82E
Nov. 24Recovered ADCP mooring and m-TRITON buoy at 0, 79E
Nov. 26Stopped all observations
Nov. 27Called at Male, Maldives. End of Leg-1
Leg-2
Nov. 28Leg-2 started
Nov. 29Restart observations
Nov. 30Recovered ADCP mooring at 1.5N, 80.5E
Dec. 01Recovered ADCP mooring at 1.5S, 80.5E
Dec. 03Replaced ADCP mooring at 0, 90E
Dec. 04Deployed m-TRITON buoy at 1.5S, 90E
Dec. 05-06Replaced TRITON buoy at 1.5S, 90E
Dec. 07-08Replaced TRITON buoy at 5S, 95E
Dec. 10Finished all observations
Dec. 13Called at Singapore. End of Leg-2 and MISMO

♦Cruise tracks

Leg - 1
leg1
Leg - 2
leg2

♦Cruise Report

MR06-05 leg1 Cruise Report [PDF]

MR06-05 leg2 Cruise Report [PDF]