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RRS Discovery D59
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
Cruise identifier | D59 |
Cruise period | 1974-02-01 — 1974-02-19 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Trials |
Objectives | To test under realistic oceanographic conditions a number of new or modified instruments and their associtated hardware. Opportunity would also be taken to lay a mooring with one current meter on the shelf, a mooring with two current meters in deeper water and a deep sea tide gauge. All three units will be recovered in late March on a cruise of RRS John Murray |
Chief scientist | Brian S McCartney (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.54 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel Bristol Channel |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: T only |
Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 5 |
CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 4 |
Current meters | Quantity: 2 |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: 1 Description: surface drogues |
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | Quantity: 1 Description: deep-sea tide gauge |
Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: acoustic stations |
Meteorology | |
Routine standard measurements | |
Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
Geology and geophysics | |
Single-beam echosounding | |
Long/short range side scan sonar | |
Other geological/geophysical measurements | Description: instrument development |