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RV Cirolana CIR9/83
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
Cruise identifier | CIR9/83 |
Cruise period | 1983-09-28 — 1983-10-19 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To continue the examination of the distribution of Strontium-90, Caesium-134, Caesium-137, Plutonium-238, Plutonium-239/240 and Americium-241 in British Isles coastal waters.
2. To determine the suspended load in seawater of each locatlity. 3. To collect core samples of the seabed in muda areas of the Snagarrak and Kattegat f |
Chief scientist | Douglas F Jefferies (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.21 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | Baltic Sea Skagerrak North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Specific | North Sea, Skagerrak, Kattegat, Orkney, Shetland, Faroe, Hebride, Irih Sea, Celtic Sea, Englih Channel |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: T only |
CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 51 |
Chemical oceanography | |
Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 147 |
Contamination | |
Suspended matter | Quantity: number of samples = 162 |
Biology and fisheries | |
Neuston | Quantity: number of samples = 3 |
Geology and geophysics | |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 7 |