Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities: CTD data collected during the Coral Propagation Technique Development (CPT) and Habitat Assessment and Evaluation (HAE) Projects Submerged Acquisition of Living Tissue (SALT 2) Expedition PS-22-22 cruise in the Gulf of Mexico from 2022-06-01 to 2022-06-10 (NCEI Accession 0277171)
The data in this package are raw (binary: .hdr, .hex, and .xmlCON) and converted (non-binary: .cnv) CTD files for both the ROV and Ship CTDs. Twenty-three dives were conducted at twelve sites across fifty-one transects. ROV operations were conducted to sample and survey sites with goals to acquire live corals for …