RRS Discovery D35
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
| Cruise identifier | D35 |
| Cruise period | 1970-07-11 — 1970-08-19 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Southampton, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Southampton, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1) Second sea trials of GLORIA
2) Side-scan survey 3) Sub-bottom profiling equipment 4) Transducer measurements 5) Sound speed profiles 6) Gulf of Cadiz sedimentation 7) Balearic Island ridge geology 8) Sea-bed 'Oysters' 9) Zooplankton collection for lipid analysis 10) A chemical release |
| Chief scientist | A H B Stride (National Institute of Oceanography) |
| Cruise report |  (0.30 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Bay of Biscay Mediterranean Sea |
| Track charts | (0.05 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Description: T surface only |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: 39 Description: bottom |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of profiles = 1 Description: sound velocity stations |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: 8 Description: lipid concentrations crustacea |
| Meteorology | |
| Incident radiation | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Multi-beam echosounding | |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 1156 Description: 1156 km |
