Prince Madog
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Prince Madog (74PD) |
| Cruise period | 1983-09-12 — 1983-09-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Port Penrhyn, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To conduct an 'intensive' monitoring survey of the Liverpool Bay sewage sludge disposal ground by use of grabbing, coring and trawling.
The grab survey was completed, the coring was partially successful but the trawling was abandoned. |
| Chief scientist | E Ivor S Rees (University of Wales, Bangor School of Ocean Sciences) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Liverpool Bay |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: anchor dredges for benthos. |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 160 Description: grab samples for sediment physical and chemical analyses, ecological analyses and chemical analyses of benthos. |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 5 |
