Cruise Planning
R/V Western Flyer
- Preparing for a cruise
- Checklist of supplies to bring
- Cruises outside home port
- Data & video
- Departure/arrival times
- Hazardous materials
- Precruise/postcruise reports
- ROV dive time definitions
- Safety Management Manuals (MBARI staff only)
- Science party guidelines for operations
- Science party size
- Scuba diving
- Ship to shore communications
- Staying onboard prior to early departure time
- Wet lab, dark room specifications. The wet lab includes a -80C freezer (~23-25 cubic ft) and an upright 4C refrigerator
(~23 cubic ft.)
- Shipboard Handbook
- Safety: know your station, drills
- Moving about the vessel
- Medical
- Shipboard living:
Staterooms, laundry, galley/meals, email/computers, phones/faxes, room assignments, boarding time
- Virtual vessel tours