RV Cirolana CIR6/85
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR6/85 |
| Cruise period | 1985-06-24 — 1985-07-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To continue the examination of the distribution of Caesium-137 in distant Northern Seas and British Isles coastal waters for estimates of the inventories in each sea area to be made. The estimates obtained will be used to validate the MAFF box model.
2. To continue the examination of the distribution of Strontium-90, Caesium-134, Plutonium-238 and 239+240 and Americium-241 in seawater. 3. To determine the suspended load in seawater at each locality. |
| Chief scientist | Douglas F Jefferies (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.19 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Norwegian Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Northern Seas/ British Isles |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 202 Description: S only 101 bottom |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 101 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 262 Description: Am=15 Np=15 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of stations = 69 |
