Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name | Sand Pebbler |
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Cruise period | 1981-05-13 — 1981-05-15 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Dartmouth, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Dartmouth, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Research |
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Objectives | To establish a suitable launch point for the SAR 580 buoy in similar conditions as for the fly past day, and obtain a track plot and depth profile over a period of about 3 hours drift. As a separate exercise the wave staff and echo sounder to be used in the SAR 580 to be installed in Sand Pebbler and tested in the vicinity of Dartmouth. |
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Chief scientist | Andrew P Salkield (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton) |
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Coordinating body | NERC |
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Cruise report | (0.03 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel |
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Measurements | |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Gear research | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Deployment and tracking of the buoy took place during the cruise. |
Gear research | Quantity: number of observations = 3 Description: Equiptment trials took place during the cruise. |