Vela BCK368
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Vela |
| Cruise identifier | BCK368 |
| Cruise period | 2004-07-01 — 2004-07-10 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Peterhead, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Peterhead, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To assess whether large diameter (45inch) bundled pipelines can be overtrawled safely, by measuring the engineering performance of single and twin trawl gears during passes over the pipeline.
2. To correlate the full-scale measurements with previously obtained model data. FRS staff objectives are to advise on the operation of the trawl gear and on the collection and recording of the data. |
| Chief scientist | Richard S T Ferro (Fisheries Research Services Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | off Peterhead; Beryl field |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Gear research | Quantity: number of measurements = 8 Description: In Beryl Field scheduled runs were completed. |
| Gear research | Quantity: number of hauls = 2 Description: Test hauls were made 10 nm east of Peterhead. |
