RV Clione CLI8A/71
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI8A/71 |
| Cruise period | 1971-07-06 — 1971-07-16 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To resurvey the area of known dredging activity south of Hastings
using the ARL Scanner. 2. To monitor the dredging of an experimental pit by MV CAMBROOK in an adjoining area using ARL Scanner. 3. To study the infill rate of the experimental pit. 4. To monitor the surface to bottom water movements in the area of the experimental pit over a period of up to seven days using DRCM, the McCave current meter array and the Lowestoft bottom current meter. |
| Chief scientist | Robert R Dickson (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.32 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 118 Description: 1 day |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Description: physical analysis of sediments |
