POC: Rose Dufour/Elizabeth Rios
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
La Jolla, CA 92093-021078
TEL: (858) 534-2841 FAX: (858) 822-5811
Internet: shipsked@ucsd.edu
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R/V Melville

LAST UPDATE: Jan. 21., 1997
  

CRUISE  MAP INDEX/AREA/        P.I./INSTITUTION/      PORTS DAYS/AGENCY/
DATES   PURPOSE                PROPOSAL NO.                 STATUS/CLEARANCE

11 Dec  SP7/180o 55oS/         Druffel, E./UCI/     Chatham Is.  28/NSF/F

1996
04 Jan  Water sampling         OCE94-17391          Dunedin, NZ 07 in '96
5,6,7
08 Jan  SP4-IN8/to Indian O./  n.a./                Dunedin      06/NSF/F
12 Jan  transit                                     Hobart
13
14,15
16 Jan  IN8, IN11/50S 128E/Sea Sempere, J./UW/      Hobart       37/NSF/F
17 Feb  Beam, airgun, dredging OCE94-03583          Fremantle
18,19
20,21
22 Feb  IN3-7/ 42-32S 77-91E/  Johnson, K./SOEST/   Fremantle    59/NSF/F
15 Apr  SB,dredging, mag, grav OCE94-15948          Port Hedland France
16,17,18

19 Apr  IN4-NP10/to Pacific/   Bray, N./SIO/        Port Hedland 14/NSF/F
04 May adding instrumention                        Suva         02/ONR/F
        to Mooring,ADCP&transit                                  Aust., Fr., PNG, Vanuatu,
5,6                                                              Solomon Is., Fiji
07 May  SP1/Tonga Forearc/     Bloomer, S./OSU/     Suva         37/NSF/F 
                                          (cross date line)      Tonga, Niue, Fiji
08 Jun  SeaBeam,seismic survey OCE95-21023          Pago Pago                                   
09

10 Jun  SP1-NP9/Transit        Lonsdale, P./SIO/    Pago Pago    16/NSF/F 
29 Jun  SeaBeam,dredging                            San Diego    03/UC/F
                                                                 01/ONR/F
                                                                Cook Is., Niue
                                                                 Mexico, Kiribati
                                                               

30 Jun  Out of Service                              San Diego    70/Non-Op
07 Sep                                           

08 Sep  SP3/So. Pac/           Scheirer, D./Brown/  San Diego    46/NSF/F
21 Oct  SeaBeam Survey         OCE94-15632          Papeete      Mexico, France
22,23                          [load AMS-120 gear]
24,25,26,27
28 Oct  SP3/17-18 EPR          Haymon, R./UCSB/    Papeete      48/NSF/F
10 Dec  ARGOII & AMS-120       OCE94-16996         Valparaiso   
        OBS Recovery           OCE94-03697                      02/NSF/F
                         (intermediate port stop E. I.)         
11,12                           [offload AMS-120 gear]
13,14
15 Dec  SP9-4/to Indian Ocean/  n.a//              Valparaiso   24/NSF/P
1997
05 Jan  transit                                    Cape Town
6,7

Total Operating days
 
NSF-  291
UC-     3
ONR-    3
--------
      297
      
        charge:   Sea:    Port:  Non-Op
1st-91*     91      81      10       0    
2nd-92*     91      85       6       1         
3rd-92      23      23       0      69           
4th-92      92      82      10       0           
Total-367* 297     271      26      70          
                   
*(Leap-year & day gained by date line crossing)

Total Nautical Miles Traveled:  55,000