Pioneer Array LNM: Mooring Pre-deployment, November 2013
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The multi-element Pioneer Array will be deployed on the continental
shelf and slope south of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The Pioneer
Array is part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) funded by 
the National Science Foundation. The full deployment will occur in 
multiple phases during 2013 and 2014.

The first phase of the Array installation will take place druing 
20-26 November, 2013 from the R/V Knorr. Three moorings are to be 
deployed at three sites, as described below. The nomenclature follows 
that in the Permit application: CSM = Coastal Surface Mooring, CPM = 
Coastal Profiler Mooring

                            Water   Mooring   Name
Site  Site Location         Depth   Type(s)   of Aid
----  --------------------  ------  --------  ----------
1     40 21.9 N, 70 46.5 W  91.5 m  CPM       UI
2     40 08.2 N, 70 46.5 W  133 m   CSM       CNSM
3     39 56.4 N, 70 46.5 W  450 m   CPM       UO

Pioneer moorings have yellow foam hulls and white or yellow towers. 
Towers are equipped with radar reflectors and flashing lights, and 
extend from 3 to 15 ft above the surface. Moorings with permanent
surface expressions (CSM, CPM) will have active radar transponders. 
Mooring lines extending to the seafloor contain scientific 
instrumentation. In order to avoid interactions with Pioneer Array 
equipment, mariners are requested to avoid a region defined by a 
watch circle of 1 km (0.5 nm) radius surrounding each site. 

More information about OOI and the Poineer Array can be found at
http://www.oceanobservatories.org. The contact number for reporting 
Pioneer Array issues is the Pioneer Array Operations Manager a the 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 508-548-1401.

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