Mooring Positions

Important Notice: Broad-scale surveys need to be aware that moorings may be located near Broad-scale standard stations #9, 12, 20, 25 and 39 and elsewhere. Watch out for them so that you do not tow too near them. Give guard moorings a wide berth when sampling.

In general, Science Buoys have sensors and instrumentation on the mooring line. Guard Buoys typically have no instrumentation, however this is not always the case. Please check with the investigator for further details. Maps of the mooring locations superimposed on the broad-scale track line are available: Map 1 or Map 1 as tif file and Map 2 (or Map 2 as tif file).

• Long-Term Moored Program (Irish, Beardsley, Brink)
  • Southern Flank Science Mooring:

    Note:On Tuesday 17 August 1999 three buoys were successfully recovered from the Southern Flank Mooring site:

    	Foam Science Buoy D 	40° 58.000' N x 67° 19.10' W
    	Foam Guard F 		40° 58.052' N x 67° 18.815' W
    	Foam Guard Q 		40° 57.942' N x 67° 19.456' W
    

  • Northeast Peak Mooring:

    Note: On Saturday, 14 August 1999 these three buoys were successfully retrieved from the Northeast Peak:

    	Steel Guard A 		41° 43.947' N x 66° 32.262' W
    	Steel Guard S 		41° 43.851' N x 66° 32.091' W
    	Steel Science B 	41° 43.934' N x 66° 32.145' W
    

  There are no plans to redeploy any of these moorings at these locations on Georges Bank as part of GLOBEC. For further information, contact Jim Irish at WHOI, jirish@whoi.edu, (508) 289-2732.

• Dick Limeburner's Moorings

  Moorings were deployed during R/V OCEANUS cruise OC337, February 27 - March 2, 1999. During the R/V OCEANUS cruise OC345, August 1 - 6, 1999, the NFD, NFS, NEP, and EF moorings (a total of 8) were removed. As per the 25 August 1999 e-mail, "We have no more WHOI NEP frontal exchange moorings on the Bank."

• Positions as provided by Bob Beardsley -
  • % globec3 southern and eastern flank long-term mooring positions
  • 41.96583 -67.31517      %SF (WHOI) Irish
  • 41.76505 -66.08980      %EF (WHOI) Beardsley
  • 42.07955 -66.70133      %NFS (WHOI) Beardsley
  • 42.0602   -66.6598       %NFS surface toroid (1/8/99)
  • 42.16392 -66.70693      %NFD (WHOI) Beardsley
  • 41.73205 -66.53627      %NEP (WHOI) Irish
  • 42.34417 -65.73400      %BBI (BIO) Smith
  • 42.16450 -65.57183      %BBO (BIO) Smith
  • 42.29533 -65.84225      %NECE (BIO) Smith
  • 42.12833 -66.01458      %NECW (BIO) Smith (sub-surface, not visible by radar)

  Note: The SF, NFD, NSF, NEP, and EF moorings are no longer in place.

• Peter Smith's Moorings (as of February 22, 1999) -

  Positions were indicated more generally in a Canadian notice to mariners on 11/23/1998 at 1850 UTC (M3982). The full complement of BIO GLOBEC moorings is given in the list below. Each subsurface pair of science buoys are surrounded by a trangular array of guard buoys. Only the guard buoys are visible by radar; the floats on the subsurface moorings are 15m below the surface. Please give these sites a wide berth.

  Mooring No.	Site	N. Lat.	W. Long.	Depth,m	Time(Z),Date
  1290	BBI	42° 20.53'	65° 44.13'	120	1422, Nov. 22, 1998
  1290A	BBIA	42° 20.77'	65° 43.95'	122	1504, Nov. 22, 1998
  1291	BBO	42° 09.75'	65° 34.31'	120	2007, Nov. 21, 1998
  1291A	BBOA	42° 09.99'	65° 34.31'	118	2048, Nov. 21, 1998
  1292	NECEA	42° 17.75'	65° 50.41'	216	1955, Nov. 22, 1998
  1293	NECE	42° 17.69'	65° 50.66'	215	1830, Nov. 22, 1998
  1294	NECWA	42° 07.79'	66° 00.91'	216	1456, Nov. 23, 1998
  1295	NECW	42° 07.61'	66° 00.84'	213	1357, Nov. 23, 1998

• Ronald Schlitz' Moorings - set during OC339; reset during EL9906

  Note: Site 71 (i.e. new Site 7) is a little off the estimate but the others are close.

  Site number	Latitude N	Longitude W	Depth (m)	Time (Z)	Date
  11 surface (E)	41 08.79	67 26.54	57	1524	17 June
  11 tripod	41 08.83	67 26.54	57	1306	18 June
  21 surface (L)	41 07.20	67 25.75	58	1841	20 June
  21 sub-surface	41 07.24	67 25.73	58	1548	21 June
  21 tripod	41 07.17	67 25.80	58	1955	21 June
  31 surface (B)	41 05.91	67 24.99	59	1423	17 June
  31 tripod	41 05.89	67 25.01	59	1231	20 June
  41 surface (A)	41 04.95	67 24.56	60	1659	19 June
  41 sub-surface	41 04.86	67 24.59	60	1910	19 June
  41 tripod	41 04.98	67 24.51	60	2055	19 June
  51 surface (D)	41 03.95	67 23.99	63	1239	17 June
  51 tripod	41 03.87	67 24.09	61	1323	20 June
  61 surface (F)	41 02.68	67 23.35	63	1212	21 June
  61 sub-surface	41 02.67	67 23.29	64	1357	22 June
  61 tripod	41 02.60	67 23.41	64	2138	21 June
  71 surface (J)	41 00.40	67 22.82	68	2118	16 June
  71 tripod	41 00.43	67 22.90	68	2154	16 June

• USGS Moorings - Marinna Martini reported that all their moorings are out of the water.

• Report from Jim Irish, August 13, 1999; August 14, 1999

  Recovered bottom pressure package at Southern Flank site, Thursday 12 Aug. Doing extensive CTD survey of Georges to end field work. Three Buoys at Southern Flank in position and look OK. Passed Northeast Peak moorings and saw three lights and blips on the raday last night. Passed Peter Smith's NECE moorings in the fog - we could barely see the bow of the boat, much less the buoys. Their positions from radar and GPS fixes are:

  • 42 deg 17.82 min N x 65 deg 50.10 min W
  • 42 deg 18.15 min N x 65 deg 50.85 min W
  • 42 deg 17.58 min N x 65 deg 50.92 min W

Historical Record

• Positions as of November 1996
• Positions as of June 5, 1997
• Positions at the end of the 1997 field year
• Positions as of April 29, 1998
• Positions as of 10 November 1998
• Positions as of 22 March 1999
• Positions as of 30 April 1999
• Positions as of 17 May 1999
• Positions as of 25 June 1999
• Positions as of 9 August 1999