CONCLUSIONS

During the 5 days cruise in transit from Tyrrhenian sea to the Sicily Channel we obtained:

• the succesful deployment of a deep mooring in the Central Tyrrhenian Sea
• 21 XBT and 3 CTD casts
• high resolution bathymetric images and DTMs of some investigated areas, including the topmost area of the Vavilov Seamount from the 2000m to 765m depth (top)
• SBP lines

The XBT and CTD data will be used for assimilation on the weekly runs of the MFS model and will be soon deposited in the MOON database, at ENEA S.Teresa Centre.

No problems were encountered regarding neither the people nor the environment during the cruise.