Estudio del Banco Chella o Seco de los Olivos en la costa sudeste de Almeria

Research and identification of sunken vessels

The main objevtive of the FAUCES 1 bis is the identification of the rececent morphosedimentary feaures of two submarine canyons in the Albroan sea , Guadiaro and Garrucha. To achive this general objetive, we adquire data with the TOPAS system and the mulbeam bathimetry.

1.- Se pretende ubicar en la estricta verticalidad del pecio un barco de tecnología moderna que tenga la posibilidad de transportar y hacer operativo un ROV. Dicho ROV deberá ser capaz de descender hasta los 1200 metros del objetivo, y pasar varias horas de trabajo diarias filmando y fotografiando los restos del pecio. Por lo tanto debe entenderse que la clara finalidad de esta Campaña estriba en la documentación, “mapeado” arqueológico e interpretación y análisis del estado actual del pecio. 2.- Además de lo anterior, se pretende realizar la cartografía de la zona de hundimiento de la Fragata Nuestra Señora de Las Mercedes. Para ello, con la sonda multihaz EM710 se llevará a cabo un levantamiento batimétrico sistemático de la zona del hundimiento con recubrimiento redundante solapando al 100%, con los haces cerrados al máximo y velocidad no superior a 5 nudos. De estemodo, se consigue una elevada densidad de puntos sondados que permitirá realizar una cartografía de gran resolución.

Make the underwater archaeological chart of the coast of Murcia.

Se pretende continuar con las labores acometidas en la Primera Campaña realizada en el 2015 en lo referido al conocimiento del pecio: - Extensión del pecio. - Estado de conservación de los materiales. - Dispersión de los restos del buque español. - Continuar con el “mapeado” arqueológico. - Avanzar en la interpretación y análisis del pecio. - Extracción de los siguientes elementos, basada en motivaciones de carácter histórico‐culturales, museográficas, de conservación, archivísticas y jurídicas: a.‐ Culebrina de bronce del siglo XVI. Peso aproximado: entre 1.300 y 1.800 Kg. b.‐ Un “cañón pedrero” u “obús de a tres”, de bronce. Pareja del extraído en 2015. c.‐ Elementos de la vajilla de plata estropeada (plata de chafalonía) que figura en la documentación del AGI. d.‐ También se extraerán algunos elementos que en el 2015 se filmaron y cuya función desconocemos. e.‐ Dependiendo de las circunstancias de la Campaña, es posible que se proceda a extraer la segunda culebrina de la Mercedes.

The objective of the CIRCAROCK0521 survey is to obtain the necessary information that will allow “identifying and evaluating the environmental status of circalittoral and rocky bathyal habitats”. The specific objectives that are proposed are: 1. Identify structuring species that characterize rocky circalittoral habitats. 2. Know the distribution of rocky circalittoral habitats. 3. Identify environmental variables involved in the distribution of rocky circalittoral habitats. 3. Compile information that is necessary to calculate the status and condition indicators that allow evaluating the conservation status of the different rocky circalittoral habitats. Additionally, the survey will allow documenting the rocky bottoms of the Cantabrian Sea and the Galician Atlantic coast in order to achieve the following secondary objectives: - Studies with multibeam probe and topas for mapping the rocky bottoms and characterization of the geomorphology of the area. - Document recording video and photo the species that characterize the different rocky circalittoral habitats. - Identify typical species of rocky circalittoral habitats from samples obtained with the rock dredge. - Prepare a catalog of species in which the taxonomy, the visual aspect and different biological and ecological characteristics of the different species are related.

Collaboration with the 'Guardia Civil' (Police) by judicial resolution in the search for people. Colaboración con la Guardia Civil por resolución judicial en la búsqueda de personas.

The goals of this survey are framed within the educational activity of the Faculty of Marine Sciences ULPGC to give the possibility of a complete oceanographic study (Physical , Chemical , Biological and Geological Survey ) in the south of Gran Canaria students of Degree, Bachelor and Master , the convergence zone between the area and the trail of the island and the presence of permanent rotation south of it. Thus this survey will contribute to a comprehensive training for students in oceanographic study of an oceanic region may  Determine the structure of water bodies, the effects of convergence and divergence to the passage of the Canary Current across the channels between islands, mass transport , and nutrients.  Determine the distribution of chemical species , including oxygen and carbon dioxide system and quantify the transport of CO2 in the atmosphere-ocean study area , the effect of micro and mesoscale phenomena in their distribution.  To characterize the effect of the wake , turns and other mesoscale structures in the distribution of species of phytoplankton and zooplankton.

The main objective of the Idrissi-2016 recovery cruise is to recovery the 10 Ocean Bottom Seismometers and Hydrophones (OBS/H) deployed in the ocean floor during the oceanographic mission Idrissi-2016 accomplished on September 2016. The OBS will have been acquiring earthquake data occurring in the area during 3 months under the sea. Seismic data will determine the shallow and deep crustal structure and plate geometry of the convergent system giving rise to earthquakes as the Mw 6.3 occurred on January 25th 2016, specially along the Al Idrissi fault, possibly the responsible of the geological hazards that threaten the region. In addition, the data acquired will allow improving our knowledge on the tectonics, faults parameters and landslides to define the most significant geological hazards, including large earthquakes and rarely tsunamis. Together with the OBS/H recovery, a detailed bathymetry survey of the Al Idrissi fault will be performed along the fault using hull-mounted echosounders on the vessel.