DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26000005
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Africana Voyage 222, August 2006

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Africana Voyage 222 in August 2006. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated under...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26000009
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Africana Voyage 249, January 2009

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Africana Voyage 249 in January 2009. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated under...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26000015
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Africana Voyage 189, February 2004

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Africana Voyage 189 in February 2004. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated under...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26500000
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Africana Voyage 269, January 2011

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Africana Voyage 269 in January 2011. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated under...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26052314
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Algoa Voyage 183, April 2011

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 183 in April 2011. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated under the...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26000012
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Africana Voyage 271, February 2011

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Africana Voyage 271 in February 2011. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated under...

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.250121-8
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Africana Voyage 192, April 2004

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Africana Voyage 192 in April 2004. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated under...

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.250121-14
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Algoa Voyage 186, September 2011

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 186 in August 2011. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated under the...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26052241
Integrated Ecosystem Programme cruise: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) on the Algoa Voyage 232, November 2016

The Integrated Ecosystem Programme (IEP) cruise: Southern Benguela was conducted on the Algoa V232, 15 - 26 November, 2016. The Integrated Ecosystem Programme is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional platform to undertake relevant science in the Southern Benguela; also functioning as a platform for collaboration and learning. All projects aim to develop an ecosystem indicator that can be used to effectively monitor and understand the Southern Benguela i.e physical, chemical, planktonic,...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26052248
Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) on Algoa Voyage 252, August 2018

The Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) Cruise was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 252 in August 2018. The Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional platform to undertake relevant science in the Southern Benguela; also functioning as a platform for collaboration and learning. All projects aim to develop an ecosystem indicator that can be used to effectively monitor and understand the Southern Benguela i.e physical,...

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.250121-12
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 097, September 2011

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Ellen Kuzowayo Voyage 097 in September 2011. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26000002
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 005, January 2008

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 005 in January 2008. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26000010
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 105, January 2012

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 105 in January 2012. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26000013
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 057, March 2010

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 057 in March 2010. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26052318
Gough Island Relief / Tristan da Cunha on SA Agulhas II Voyage 009, September 2013

The Gough Island Relief / Tristan da Cunha cruise was conducted on the SA Agulhas II, Voyage 009 from 5 September to 10 October, 2013.

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.22112022
Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) on the Algoa Voyage 282, May 2022

This Integrated Ecosystem Programme: Southern Benguela (IEP:SB) cruise was conducted on the Algoa Voyage 282 in May 2022. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Kleinsee, Namaqualand, Elands/St Helena Bay and Scarborough on the west coast of South Africa. The IEP:SB in 2013 consolidated a long-term, multi-decadal time-series (from 1951 onward) of information for this important region and has continued monitoring in the form of the IEP:SB. The programme is a...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26000011
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 085, March 2011

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 085 in March 2011. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26000014
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 037, April 2009

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 037 in April 2009. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated...

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.250121-7
St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 001, September 2007

This St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) cruise was conducted on the Ellen Kuzwayo Voyage 001 in September 2007. This is a long-term monitoring line conducted off the coast of Elands/St Helena Bay on the west coast of South Africa. SHBML started in 2000 as a BENEFIT-driven project on "shipboard monitoring" which linked with similar lines run in Namibia and Angola. The aims were to obtain seasonal and interannual information on the hydrology and productivity of the area. It was incorporated...

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.12122024
Processed CTD discrete observations from the Physical-Chemical Oceanography on the Africana Voyage 085, August 1990

Here we present processed Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) discrete data from the upcast collected, between 16 August and 29 August 1990, during the Physical-Chemical Oceanography on the Africana Voyage 085, in the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) region on the west coast of Southern Africa. Neil Brown MK3 and MK4 CTD instruments were used to measure pressure, temperature and conductivity through the water column during research and monitoring cruises between 1983 and 2000.

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.08122024
Physical-Chemical Oceanography on the Africana Voyage 085, August 1990

The Physical-Chemical Oceanography Cruise was conducted on the Africana Voyage 085 from 16 - 29 August 1990. This cruise was divided into two legs with the first leg focusing on physical oceanography and the latter on chemical oceanography. The main objectives of the cruise were primarily to find and investigate an eddy shed from the Aqulhas Retroflection in the Cape Basin using XBT, CTD, ADC and WP II net stations; to investigate shelf edge jets on the West Coast continental shelf using...

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.20210217
Physical Oceanography Cruise on the Africana Voyage 014, December 1983

The Physical Oceanography Cruise was on the Africana Voyage 014 between the 5th and 15th of December 1983. Research was conducted from Cape Point to Chamais Bay along the south-west coast of South Africa. This cruise was aimed primarily at current profiling along the west coast.

DOI: 10.15493/dea.mims.26052361
West Coast Physical Oceanography Cruise on the Africana Voyage 006, February 1983

The West Coast Physical Oceanography Cruise on the Africana Voyage 006 was held between 21 February and 02 March 1983. Research was conducted in St Helena Bay, Table Bay and Olifantsbos on the south-west coast of South Africa. This cruise was aimed primarily at current profiling and studies of the thermohaline structure of the shelf and slope zones.

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.19122022
Raw CTD discrete observations from the West Coast Physical Oceanography cruise on the Africana Voyage 019, May 1984

This is raw Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) discrete data from the West Coast Physical Oceanography cruise on the Africana Voyage 019 collected between 7 and 17 May 1984. The cruise operated in the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) region on the west coast of South Africa. Africana Cruise 019 lasted from May 7 to May 17th 1984 and undertook several scientific tasks. The first part of the cruise was mostly devoted to bathymetric and geophysical (continuous reflection...

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.06122022
Processed CTD continuous observations from the West Coast Physical Oceanography cruise on the Africana Voyage 016, February 1984

This is processed downcast Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) continuous data from the West Coast Physical Oceanography cruise on the Africana Voyage 016 collected between 03 and 04 February 1984. The cruise operated in the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) region on the west coast of South Africa. The objectives of this cruise were to conduct torsional vibration trials to meet the requirements of Lloyds, to retrieve and deploy two thermistor chain/current meter moorings and...