FRV Mara 5/68
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Mara (74MR) |
| Cruise identifier | 5/68 |
| Cruise period | 1968-05-20 — 1968-05-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Objectives | 500 bottom drift indicators were released between 2 stations near Buckie.
A current meter mooring deployed near Rosehearty. 4 parachute drogues were released here and the other buoy. Work was curtailed due to persistent dense fog. |
| Chief scientist | Harry D Dooley (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.14 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 9 |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 500 Description: parach.drogue/curr.cross/bottom |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: current msmnt. from moored ocean.stat. |
| Meteorology | |
| Routine standard measurements |
