{"id":536799,"date":"2025-10-31T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/?p=536799"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:54:10","slug":"boosting-flexibility-at-sea-preparing-for-the-pioneer-fall-turn-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/boosting-flexibility-at-sea-preparing-for-the-pioneer-fall-turn-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosting Flexibility at Sea: Preparing for the Pioneer Fall Turn Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"233\" data-end=\"418\">The team has officially completed loading the R\/V <em data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"301\">Neil Armstrong<\/em> for Leg #1 of the Pioneer Fall Turn cruise \u2014 and this year\u2019s setup brings increased operational flexibility!<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"420\" data-end=\"733\">The vessel is carrying all three types of moorings used in the Coastal Pioneer Array: Coastal Profiler, Shallow Water, and Coastal Surface moorings. Having the full suite on board means the team can handle both deployments and recoveries regardless of changing weather or sea conditions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"968\">This approach not only maximizes efficiency but also ensures that critical ocean observations continue uninterrupted \u2014 a key advantage as the Pioneer Array continues to support year-round research in the dynamic Mid-Atlantic Bight.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"968\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-536800 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0099-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0099-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0099-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0099-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0099-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0099-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/143\/2025\/11\/IMG_0099-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team has officially completed loading the R\/V Neil Armstrong for Leg #1 of the Pioneer Fall Turn cruise \u2014 and this year\u2019s setup brings increased operational flexibility! The vessel is carrying all three types of moorings used in the Coastal Pioneer Array: Coastal Profiler, Shallow Water, and Coastal Surface moorings. Having the full suite&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":536800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[332],"tags":[189,333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536801,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536799\/revisions\/536801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/ooi-expedition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}