28 July 2016 – Spanish cruise finishing tomorrow
By Julio Valeiras and Begoña Santos, Cruise co-ordinators
The Spanish cruise that has covered the southernmost offshore waters of the SCANS-III survey area is finishing tomorrow. Today we are surveying the last two transects in the Cantabrian Sea and then tomorrow we aim to finish off parts of two transects in the NW block that we weren’t able to survey because of the intense fog ten days ago. Then back to our home port of Vigo.
It’s been a highly successful cruise, not least because of our great crew of 26 people aboard the RV Angeles Alvariño of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO). The team comprised 13 scientists and 13 ship’s crew. The science team line-up was as follows:
Primary observation platform
Tracker observation platform
Ornithologists
MSc students