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RRS Challenger CH10/76
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RRS Challenger (74CH) |
Cruise identifier | CH10/76 |
Cruise period | 1976-06-30 — 1976-07-13 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Dunstaffnage, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Dunstaffnage, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | Main objectives:
a) Benthos sampling and seabed camera survey of the Northern Rockall Trough and Wyville-Thomson Ridge area in order to relate benthic distributions and community structure to the 'overspill' from the Faroe Bank Channel, and to make supporting hydrographic observations. b) To collect large samples of species of benthic megafauna for studies on genetic polymorphism by the Institute of Biologia Animale, University of Padua, Italy. |
Chief scientist | John D Gage (Scottish Marine Biological Association) |
Cruise report | (2.11 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Specific | Rockall Trough and Wyvillle-Thomson Ridge |
Track charts | (0.08 MB) |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 15 Description: S bottom 14 T bottom |
Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 16 Description: bottom current direction |
Biology and fisheries | |
Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of hauls = 20 Description: survey:taxonomy,population studies |
Gear research | Quantity: number of hauls = 16 |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of deployments = 21 Description: bottom photography |