RRS Charles Darwin CD33
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) |
| Cruise identifier | CD33 |
| Cruise period | 1988-05-05 — 1988-06-01 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Suva, Fiji |
| Port of return | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To obtain geological and geophysical data |
| Chief scientist | Lindsay M Parson (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.52 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | South West Pacific Ocean (limit 140W) |
| Specific | SW Pacific (Lau Basin) |
| Track charts | (0.07 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 18 |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 33 |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 6000 |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: track kilometres = 3300 |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 3300 |
| Seismic refraction | Description: 3 sonobuoys |
| Gravity measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 7008 |
| Magnetic measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 3411 |
