Survey Identifier: RC2709
Format Acronym: MGD77
Data Center File Number: 17120023
Parameters Surveyed Code: 51111
File Creation Date (yyyymmdd): 19900315
Source Institution: UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
Country: USA
Platform Name: R/V ROBERT D. CONRAD
Platform Type Code: 1
Platform Type: SHIP
Chief Scientist(s): HENRY DICK
Project: RC2709
Funding: NSF
Survey Departure Date (yyyymmdd): 19861002
Port of Departure: PORT-LOUIS, MAURITIUS
Survey Arrival Date (yyyymmdd): 19861115
Port of Arrival: CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Navigation Instrumentation: GPS, TRANSIT SATELLITE
Geodetic Datum/Position: PRIM-GPS
Bathymetry Instrumentation: SEA BEAM vertical beam
Additional Forms of Bathymetric Data: ANALOG
Topmost Latitude of Survey: -20
Bottommost Latitude: -36
Leftmost Longitude: +022
Rightmost Longitude: +058
General Digitizing Rate of Bathymetry: 006
General Sampling Rate of Bathymetry: VAR-W-DEPTH
Assumed Sound Velocity: 15000
Interpolation Scheme: 1 MINUTE AVERAGES
Additional Documentation: Other data reported to have been collected on this cruise were magnetics, single-channel seismics, gravity, dredging, heat-flow.
Number of Data Records: 64493
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1986 10 02
Latitude: -35.46227
Longitude: +22.37603
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 002480
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 186.0
Min/Max Data Record:
Date: 1986 11 05
Latitude: -20.11633
Longitude: +57.69865
Bathymetry, 2- Way Traveltime: 086133
Bathymetry, Corrected Depth: 6539.0