Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
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Cruise identifier | 3/72 |
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Cruise period | 1972-02-12 — 1972-02-14 |
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Status | Completed |
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Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
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Purpose | Trials |
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Objectives | 1. To test the new buoy recovery system on CORELLA.
2. To lay a number of recording current meters in the Thames Estuary and off the Suffolk coast. |
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Chief scientist | John W Talbot (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.09 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Current meters | Description: 2 days |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 700 Description: bottom |
Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 10 Description: drogues |
Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 |