Mooring operations
Creators
Description
The Nares-II mooring, installed September 21, 1984, was recovered with all instrumentation on November 21, 1985 at 23014.76'N, 64001.75'W. Instruments recovered were upright sediment traps at 735, 1435, 2885, 3800, 4785, and 5785 m, plus inverted sediment traps at 2915 and 4815 m, and five current meters located at 750, 1450, 2900, 4800, and 5800 m. The Nares-III mooring was deployed on November 22 at 23015.07'N, 64002.07. This mooring contains the following instrumentation: 5 current meters at 750, 1450, 2900, 4800, and 5800 m; 2 upright sediment traps at 1435 and 4785 m; 1 inverted sediment trap at 4835 m; 7 passive chemical monitors (an experimental system for long-term radionuclide collection by absorption in situ at 750, 1285, 2000, 2900, 3900, 4635, and 5800 m); and 3 transmissometers at 1450, 4800, and 5800 m. This mooring was recovered on November 3, 1986
Additional details
Additional titles
- Augmented title (English)
- Nares Abyssal Plain: Nares II Oceanographic Mission
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Subseabed Disposal Project annual report, FY85 to termination of project: Physical Oceanography and Water Column Geochemistry Studies, October 1984 through May 1986
- Journal Page Range
- p. 15-16.
- Report number
- SAND--86-2527
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19073451
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
- Descriptors DEI
- ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATTENUATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DATA ACQUISITION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GEOCHEMISTRY; LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; MARINE DISPOSAL; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SEA BED; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; TRAPPING; VELOCITY; WATER CURRENTS
- Descriptors DEC
- CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CURRENTS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLAR SOLVENTS; QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEAS; SOLVENTS; SURFACE WATERS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; WATER