RRS Charles Darwin CD126
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) |
| Cruise identifier | CD126 |
| Cruise period | 2001-03-11 — 2001-03-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Funchal, Portugal |
| Port of return | Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The major cruise objective was to obtain sediment cores at various locations to the west and southwest of the Canary Islands with the aims of :
- Sampling debris flow sediments in the Canary and Saharan debris flows - Obtaining dateable sediments immediately above and below the debris flow sediments - Sampling turbidite sediments associated with the debris flows - Sampling sediments on either flank of a sediment wave west of La Palma In addition, it was planned to - obtain seabed video footage, using the SHRIMP towed camera station, at several localities where downslope sediment transport was believed to be active at the present day, and - undertake some test deployments of the SOC Scatterometer system |
| Chief scientist | Douglas G Masson (Southampton Oceanography Centre) |
| Cruise report |  (0.77 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | West and southwest of the Canaries |
| Track charts | (0.49 MB) |
