Sand Pebbler
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Sand Pebbler |
| Cruise period | 1981-05-13 — 1981-05-15 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Dartmouth, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Dartmouth, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| 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. |
| Chief scientist | Andrew P Salkield (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton) |
| Coordinating body | NERC |
| Cruise report |  (0.03 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| 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. |
