The Italian staff boarded the R/V Uraniain Rhodes, the afternoon 2005-09-08.
Morning 2005-09-09 ship sailed N to Çannakale, where the Turkish staff
joined the expedition late morning 2005-09-10. The operations on the Saros Gulf
area started immediately after the departure from the Dardanelles, aiming to
obtain a first bathymetric image and chirp SBP data on the Aegean strand of the NAF. Three corings
by SW104 and some CTD casts were performed also.
2005-09-13 late afternoon ship moved to cross the Dardanelles and entered the Sea
of Marmara morning of 2005-09-14, going to Gaziköyand performing chirp and
multibeam investigations on the shelf to Siliviri and Büyükçekmece. The night of
2005-09-14 Urania sailed to the Princes Islands and Tuzla area, where continuous chirp SBP,
multibeam and coring operations were performed up to late afternoon of 2005-09-17, when
ship docked in Istanbul at the Cruise Ship Terminal at the Galata Bridge. On
2005-09-18 a press conference took place on board. After receiving fuel and provisions
late afternoon we crossed the Bosphorus to SE to continue the Chirp and
multibeam operations in the Tuzla area. On 2005-09-19 ship reached the Karamursel
basin in the Izmit gulf, where it operated (multibeam, chirp and coring) up to the
evening of 2005-09-20 when it moved SW bordering the Armutlu Peninsula
toward the Gulf of Gemlik. Early afternoon
of 2005-09-27 the operation in Gemlik ended after successful multibeam and
chirp mapping, coring and MCS profiling, and ship directed W to the delta of
the Kokasu R. and N to the Imrali Canyon and then W to the Dardanelles, that were crossed morning of
2005-09-28. Ship moved then to the Saros Gulf, to complete mapping and coring of the NAF.
2005-10-01, early in the morning ship anchored outside of the
Dardanelles to disembark the Turkish team and get the clearance for leaving
Turkey. Upon receipt of this latter, late morning ship sailed full steam SW
to Greece and NW to Bari, where it docked 2005-10-04 late afternoon.
Demobilitazion took place 2005-10-05 late morning.
See in chapter 2 additional information on the cruise.
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