Cold spring survey and sampling in the western Pacific
2022-11-18
Date:2017
Equipment:Quasar18
Location:Cold Springs of the Western Pacific Plateau
Material-Energy Exchange of Strategic Ocean Systems in the Tropical Western Pacific Ocean and its Impacts - Cold Spring Survey Cruise
Completed 24 normal operation dives and 2 test dives. Carried out seafloor equipment deployment and recovery, biobox biological sampling, carousel biological sampling, pushcore sediment sampling, water sampling from water bottles, rock sampling, lander recovery, elevator, temperature chain deployment, Raman spectroscopy, deep-sea physical and chemical parameter in-situ observation system operation, deep-sea in-situ seawater pumping and filtering system operation, and core drilling rig sampling, Geophysical survey, solid hydrate sampling by holding pressure sampler, biological sampling by holding pressure sampler, and other tasks.