PLANNING AND STRATEGY

Ship time of the R/V Universitatis was provided by CONISMA upon request. The application for clearances to perform the geophysical survey in the Marsili Basin and the plan of the cruise was submitted to the italian authorities in Rome early spring 2006 ...

The survey was planned to carry out the following tasks

• MBES with a high resolution multibeam, capable of investigating the sea bottom down to depths between 10 and 2500 m, alongwith SV measurements either by CTD or SVP,
• CHIRP SBP high resolution profiling
• gravimetric and magnetometric investigations
• CTD profiling and water sampling
• sediment sampling (by grabs)