| From August 6 - September 2, 2022 (Horta, Faial, Azores to San Juan, Puerto Rico)
NOAA Ocean Exploration completed the Voyage to the Ridge 3 expedition (EX-22-06),
a combined mapping and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) expedition to the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge and Azores Plateau, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and U.S. waters in the vicinity of Puerto
Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Operations during this 28-day expedition included
the completion of 9 successful ROV exploration dives in the vicinity of the Azores,
the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Azores, and Puerto Rico. ROV dives were conducted
in water depths ranging from 250 m to 6000 m for a total of 41 hours of bottom time.
EX-22-06 also collected 56,769 square kilometers of seafloor bathymetry and associated
water column data using an EM304 multibeam sonar. All data associated with this expedition
have been archived and are publicly available through the NOAA Archives. |