The first official HOTMIC research cruise will be on F/S Alkor, and leaves from Malaga, Spain, on 05 March. The cruise track will follow the European coast from the Mediterranean Sea through the eastern Atlantic, Bay of Biscay, English Channel, and North Sea, to finish in the Baltic Sea at Kiel, Germany, on 01 April. […]

Technically, the first unofficial HOTMIC research cruise was conducted at the end of summer 2019, in the North Atlantic Gyre on F/S Poseidon. You can read more on their blog here and here.