Moorings and Monitoring Lines Cruise: Cape Point and Port St Johns on the Algoa Voyage 204, November 2013

The Moorings and Monitoring Lines Cruise: Cape Point and Port St Johns was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 204, 25 November to 6 December, 2013. The South Coast Mooring Cruise had two scientific objectives: (1) Service, maintain and extend the in situ operational oceanography network currently deployed around South Africa and (2) to investigate the dynamics of the Port St Johns eddy and biological implications. On this cruise, the French ADCP SAMOC mooring was deployed. The Cape Recife mooring was recovered and serviced. The Cape Morgan moorings were retrieved. The Port St. Johns CTD/bongo survey lines were completed. The Port St. Johns ADCP was serviced. The SVP drifters and Argo floats were deployed in the Agulhas Current core. Four new ADCP moorings were deployed in Algoa Bay.