Cruise Info. | |
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Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
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Cruise identifier | 8/72 |
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Cruise period | 1972-05-15 — 1972-05-30 |
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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 | Research |
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Objectives | 1. To continue the examination of the budget of artificial radionuclides
in the Irish Sea.
2. To collect seawater samples at selected stations for trace element
analysis.
3. To collect seawater samples to determine caesium-137 concentrations in
the North Sea, the English Channel and the North-western approaches to
the Irish Sea.
4. Total gamma counting above the sea surface to discriminate between
background and discharge situations.
5. To carrry out a radiological survey of the Clyde area.
6. To collect fish, plankton and other samples for, the IDOE programme and
on behalf of Dr J H Steele, DAFS.
7. To collect seawater samples in the North Sea on behalf of Dr Kautsky,
DHI, to assist their North Sea radiocaesium budget studies. |
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Chief scientist | J W R Dutton (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
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Cruise report | (0.16 MB) |
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Ocean/sea areas | |
General | English Channel North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
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Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
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Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 60 Description: S bottom 92 S surface |
Chemical oceanography | |
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Trace elements | Quantity: number of stations = 76 |
Radioactivity | Quantity: number of stations = 132 Description: determinations of caesium 137 concentrations |
Contamination | |
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Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 76 Description: chemical pollution |
Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 21 Description: instrument development |
Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 132 Description: radioactivity pollution;determinations of caesium 137 concentrations |
Biology and fisheries | |
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Zooplankton | Quantity: number of samples = 1 |
Meteorology | |
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Occasional standard measurements | |
Geology and geophysics | |
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Dredge | Quantity: number of hauls = 87 |