RRS Charles Darwin CD107
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) |
| Cruise identifier | CD107 |
| Cruise period | 1997-08-20 — 1997-09-03 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Fairlie, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Southampton, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To map the seabed topography using swath bathymetry.
2. To deploy long moorings comprising sediment traps, transmissometers and current meters. 3. To obtain samples of the seabed using box- and multi-coring techniques. 4. To obtain background CTD information. |
| Chief scientist | Kevin S Black (Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | BENBO |
| Cruise report |  (0.59 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Atlantic Ocean |
| Specific | Mouth of Rockall Trough; Hatton-Rockall Basin; Flank of Feni Drift |
| Track charts | (0.10 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of deployments = 3 Description: CTD deployments Site: A Depth range: 3574-3588m |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: CTD deployments Site: B Depth range: 1100-1115m |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: CTD deployments Site: C Depth range: 1950-2040m |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Sediment traps | Quantity: number of samples = 22 Description: 22 sediment sampling traps. |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | 52° 55' 4" N 16° 55' 1" W — Site A; Mouth of Rockall Trough Water Depth: 3580m Deployments: Multicore 1 Multicore 2 Multicore 3 Box Core 1 |
| Core - soft bottom | 57° 25' 29" N 15° 40' 58" W — Site B; Hatton-Rockall Basin Water Depth: 1100 Deployments: Multicore 1 Multicore 2 Multicore 3 Box Core 1 |
| Core - soft bottom | 57° 6' 0" N 12° 30' 54" W — Site C; Flank of Feni Drift Water Depth: 1920 Deployments: Multicore 1 Multicore 2 Multicore 3 Box Core 1 |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 7 CTD frame plus rosette sampler | |
| 4 Instrument mooring |
