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Cruise report 5SIRENA 2 / D274 Cruise RRS Discovery Govan, Sept, 12 th – Ponta Delgada, Oct, 1 st , 2003----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AcknowledgmentsThe scientific party on board RSS Discovery for the SIRENA 2 / D274 cruise wishes to thank theship’s master, Robin Plumley, the officers and crew for conducting all cruise operations with greatseamanship, efficiency and permanent availability.In particular, the deck crew did a great job in recovering very quickly the five moorings whichaccepted to surface.Our thanks extend to the UKORS technical team:- the two Robs and Jez designed and built overnight a motorized spooler which sped (andeased…) up the spooling of the mooring lines on the wooden spools. The saying “necessity isthe mother of invention” turned out to be especially true in these circumstances!- Paul, the Linux fan, made an efficient communication between the various computers broughtby the scientific party very quickly possible (even those running under various Windoze OS’s…). He gave us an easy access to along-track data, which enabled us to visualize these data inreal-time for quick route planning. Finally, he kindly offered to provide an additional medium(DLT) to archive the hydrophone data.Funding from various sources made the Sirena experiment possible:- the cost of ship time was provided by the French Ministry of Research, after the project hadreceived scientific approval by the “Géosciences Marines” Committee;- the development of the autonomous hydrophones, their building and deployment costs duringthe Sirena experiment were provided by NOAA;- salaries and travel costs were provided to their nationals by the universities and institutions ofthree countries involved (in France the Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers et del’Environnement INSUE covered the costs of travels of the French members of the scientificparty).