Talisker (Seaglider 156) Mission 001:: Rockall Trough 12 October 2009 to 09 March 2010. A winter survey of the Ellett Line

Toby Sherwin; Estelle Dumont

Talisker (Seaglider 156) Mission 001: Rockall Trough 12 October 2009 to 09 March 2010. A winter survey of the Ellett Line

Toby Sherwin, Estelle Dumont

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Abstract

Talisker (SAMS Seaglider 156) was deployed west of Tiree on 12 October 2009, to undertake SAMS exploratory mission to monitor the Ellett Line in the North Atlantic using a glider rather than a ship. She was equipped with a Seabird CTD and Oxygen sensor as well as a Wetlabs fluorometer with red and blue backscatter sensors. Before recovery on 9 March 2010 she had made 789 dives, completed four crossings of the Rockall Trough and covered over 3000 km. Although the end of the mission was forced by a failure of the roll motor, by then all objectives had been completed and the glider was about to return home. The mission has thus been judged a success, and marks the start of remote monitoring of the North Atlantic by SAMS.
A complete summary of the mission data can be found at http://dalriada.sams.ac.uk/glider/

Original language	English
Publisher	Scottish Association for Marine Science
Number of pages	38
Publication status	Published - 2010

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Name	SAMS Internal reports
No.	272

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