RV Cirolana CIR2B/94
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR2B/94 |
| Cruise period | 1994-02-08 — 1994-02-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To sample the sediments, benthos and fish at various NMP sites in the Irish Sea and English Channel by grab and trawl.
2. To deploy a Kasten core at suitable muddy locations. 3. To sample aggregate areas in Liverpool Bay, the Bristol Channel and Lyme Bay as part of a continuing MAFF/CEC study. 4. To sample sediments at sewage-sludge disposal sites off Plymouth and the Isle of Wight. 5. To conduct further studies at an aggregate extraction site off Hastings using underwater camera, side-scan sonar and dredges. 6. To sample a grid of stations on the Dogger Bank for a range of contaminants in sediments and benthos. Additions: 1. To examine the distribution of the 'ross worm' Sabellaria at a proposed aggregate extraction site in the Bristol Channel. 2. To sample the sediments and benthos at the Lyme Bay sewage-sludge disposal site. 3. To conduct a side-scan sonar survey off Ramsgate at a location thought to have been used for illegal disposal of dredged material. |
| Chief scientist | Hubert Llewelyn Rees (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.18 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Irish Sea/English Channel/North Sea |
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| Measurements | |
| Contamination | |
| Other contaminant measurements | Description: range of contaminants in sediments and benthos (Dogger) |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 11 Description: at NMP sites in Irish Sea & English Channel |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: underwater camera at aggregation extraction site off hastings |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 25 Description: at NMP sites in Irish Sea and English Channel |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 142 Description: sediment sampling at sewage-sludge disposal sites -plymouth & IOW |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 1 Description: Kasten core at suitable muddy locations |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of deployments = 3 Description: at NMP sites in Irish Sea & English Channel |
