WB 1305 CTD, R/V Weatherbird, Florida to DeSoto Canyon, 2012-09-22 - 2012-09-29

Samples and observations were collected from the R/V Weatherbird II, cruise WB 1305, from the DEEP-C benthic array of sites. Leg I departed St Petersburg 08:00 2012-09-22, changed personnel in Panama City at 08:00 on 30 Sept. Leg 2 returned to Panama City at 08:00 7 October. Equipment requested from FIO: CTD-Rosette, 12kHz depth profiling display, 50x50cm box core (back-up). Equipment requested from USF: 8-barrel multicore and core-processing equipment (Hollander), USBL system (Locker), chest freezer. Equipment provided by FSU: MILET photo platform. Leg 1 prioritized photo survey of all sites with selected multicore collections at the shallow ( < 1000m sites). Leg 2 prioritized multicore and water sample collections with no scheduled seafloor imaging. This dataset contains the data from the CTD casts for this cruise.