HOT-9: Chief Scientist Report

Chief Scientist: R. LUKAS

HOT-9 Cruise Report
SSP Kaimalino
22-26 Aug. 1989 



Personnel List:
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Roger Lukas
Dale Hebel		
Jef Snyder		
Stewart Reid
Shannon Cripe
Chris Sabine		
Marc Rosen		
Ricardo Letelier
	 


Itinerary (approximate local time):
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22 Aug.
  0800 Depart Snug Harbor
  1200 Arrive Kahe Pt
  1500 Depart Kahe Pt
23 Aug.
  0500 Arrive HOT-site: deploy sediment traps
  0800 Commence CTD sampling
25 Aug.
  0300 Primary productivity cast
       Cease 36-hour sampling
26 Aug.
  0500 Recover Sediment traps
  2200 Arrive Snug Harbor



Narrative:
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CTD casts were limited to 2500 dbars because of the short hydrowire.
Apart from this, there were no major problems affecting the data
collection, except that the ship broke down during the transit home.
Only three XBT casts were made on the return transit because of poor
dead reckoning navigation quality between fixes. On this cruise, a
massive surface Trichodesimum bloom was observed near Station ALOHA.