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Cruise report 23SIRENA 2 / D274 Cruise RRS Discovery Govan, Sept, 12 th – Ponta Delgada, Oct, 1 st , 2003----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Site S3 (estimated 47°35’39 ’ ’ N; 32°27’00 ’ ’ W)Hydrophone name - H19Acoustic release - Benthos 1046MooringDate - May, 24 th , 2002 15:00 GMTAnchor drop position - 47 o 35.596’N, 32 o 27.258’WShip course - 254 degreesCable length - 3400 m (1000m Vectron, 2000m VLS, 200m VLS, 200mVLS)Bottom depth - 4165 mRecovery . Hydrophone not recoveredBottom depth - unable to enable release. No ranging.Weather : - W backing SE 4 to 7, visibility good becoming poor attime in showers- arrive on site at 13:55 Z on sept, 20 th- try for 6 hours to communicate with release using both decksets and bothtransducers. Wind and sea pick up in the evening- 19:50 : begin overnight magnetic profiles.- back over mooring at 07:30, sept, 21 st . Enabling the release still not successfull.- 11:30; recovery gear in the water, start trawling at 12:30.- 18:30: recovery gear on deck. Pinger lost because unsecured ring on line catchersimply unscrewed!- 20:15 . begin overnight magnetic profiles- back over mooring at 07:30 on sept, 22 nd . 08:00 > 10:00 : try to image the float withthe PDR- 10:30 : try to communicate with release using both decksets and both transducers.No success. Wind (7) and waves (4m) pick up.- 12:00 > 18:00. Four passes over the estimated position of mooring. No success, because ofthe impossibility to operate the poorly-designed recovery gear in real sea conditions.Impossible to put a weight on the bootom because of the presence of a submarinetelephone cable very near the mooring site.- 18:50 recovery gear on board- 20:00 start steaming towards site S2.Hydrophone S3 was not recovered.Failure of the recovery of S3 was plagued by many problems, initially caused by the failure of theacoustic release which we were not able to overcome by dragging the mooring, this being due tothe poor design of the recovery kit.