RV Cirolana CIR8B/91
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR8B/91 |
| Cruise period | 1991-10-10 — 1991-10-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Trials |
| Objectives | Gear Trials. No data collected.
1. Trials of the Hamon grab, comparing its samples with those from the anchor dredge. Some processing of the benthos collected will be undertaken. 2. Deploy the Cambridge University quadrapod to test its handling, acoustic release, data logger, and a batch of syringe water samples. 3. Deploy the MAFF tetrapod fitted with the usual instruments plus a new MOBS arrangement. 4. Test parts of the new shipboard data logging system. 5. Test the performance of a new type of radar reflector mounted on a toroid. 6. Test the GPS slave monitor. 7. Test a special version of the 34 kHz sonar transponder. |
| Chief scientist | Nicholas D Pearson (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.10 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: testing and trials of equipment |
