RV Lough Foyle LF/01/92

Cruise summary report

Cruise Info.
Ship name (ship code)	RV Lough Foyle (74LG)
Cruise identifier	LF/01/92
Cruise period	1992-02-11 — 1992-02-13
Status	Completed
Port of departure	Oban, United Kingdom
Port of return	Oban, United Kingdom
Purpose	Research
Objectives	Recover and remove all SOAFD instruments moored in Loch Linnhe.
Chief scientist	Mike R Heath (Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department Aberdeen Marine Laboratory)
Project	Loch Linnhe Project
Coordinating body	SOAFD
Ocean/sea areas
General	Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
Specific	Loch Linnhe
Measurements
Physical oceanography
Water bottle stations
CTD stations
Current meters	Quantity: number of deployments = 1
Chemical oceanography
Nitrate
Moorings, landers, buoys
Physical oceanography
Subsurface temperature measurements	56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 1 * 60M, 1 lost at sea recovered
Transparency (eg transmissometer)	56° 31' 59" N 5° 32' 59" W — 5 transmissometers "
Optics (eg underwater light levels)	56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 5 fluorometers
Current meters	56° 51' 0" N 5° 11' 29" W — 10 ACM
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder)	56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 3 WLR
Chemical oceanography
Other chemical oceanographic measurements	56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 5 nutrient analysers
Biology and fisheries
Sediment traps	56° 32' 59" N 5° 30' 0" W — 2 auto sed traps