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Expedition M80-3 with RV METEOR: Cape Verde Seamounts

Chief Scientist: PD Dr. Thor Hansteen, IfM-Geomar, Kiel

Expedition M80-3 with RV METEOR took place between the 29th of December, 2009 and the 1st of February, 2010 and led from Dakar, Senegal, to the surrounding s of the Cape Verde Archipelago. The mission ended in Gran Canaria. The objective of the expedition was to gain knowledge on the evolution of the Cape Verde seamounts. For this purpose, geological, biological and geo-physical methods and technologies were employed.

ROV KIEL 6000 was once again one of the main tools for (straitgraphically) defined sampling and completed 14 scientific dives in water depths of up to 5000 m.

Publications to which ROV KIEL 6000 contributed.
Photos (unless otherwise noted): ROV-Team GEOMAR; for enquiries on utilisation of image material please contact Public Relations Dept GEOMAR or Dr. Friedrich Abegg .

 

Front view of ROV KIEL 6000 with stereo camera setup
ROV KIEL 6000 shortly before descent
In the control van
View onto the aft deck during a dive
Panorama of the Cabo Verde Archipelago
ROV Team during M80-3
Brittle Star on coral cf. Enallopsammia rostrata
Shrimp between lava und coral fragments
Feather star (Crinoida cf Comatula sp.) on bamboo coral (Isididae)
Octopus Graneledone sp. (Cephalopoda)
A piece of lava is being smapled by the ORION
Goose barnacles and feather stars on bamboo coral (Isididae)
"Donkey Ear" sponge
Sampling of a bamboo coral
Metallogorgia sp. with "symbiotic" brittle stars
Anthomastus sp. on coral stem, aside a sea cucumber on the sediment
Large gorgonian cf. Primnoa sp. between different scleractinian corals
Anglerfish
Brisingiid starfish
Floating sea cucumber in the Cabo Verde Abyssal Plain (ca. 5100 m)

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    Scientific Head 

    Dr. James Taylor
    GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
    Wischhofstr. 1-3
    D-24148 Kiel
    Technology & Logistics Centre
    Tel.: 0049 431 600-2134
    Fax: 0049 431 600-2680
    E-mail: jtaylor(at)geomar.de   


    Technical Head

    Martin Pieper (Dipl. Ing.)
    Technology & Logistics Centre
    Tel.: 0049 431 600-1688
    Fax: 0049 431 600-2680
    E-mail: mpieper(at)geomar.de 

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