RV Corystes COR12A/93
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR12A/93 |
| Cruise period | 1993-11-05 — 1993-11-24 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To collect seawater samples to study further the distribution of 137Cs in UK waters and of tritium in the Irish Sea. |
| Chief scientist | I Huggins (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | The Minch, North Channel, Irish Sea, North Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 10 Description: 75 top & bottom only 46 surface only |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 149 Description: radiocaesium and tritium analysis |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 50 |
