FRV Explorer 5B/69
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Explorer (74EX) |
| Cruise identifier | 5B/69 |
| Cruise period | 1969-09-02 — 1969-09-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Media |
| Objectives | 1) A film crew from the BBC worked on the ship to prepare a documentary on the use of the shipbourne computer for gear research
2) Conductor trawl warps were streamed and measured up at a deep water station North of Shetland 3) Experimental trawling with bottom gears off Balta Sound ''Explorer'' returned to Aberdeen after filming and set sail again on the 03/09/1969. |
| Chief scientist | D N MacLennan (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.26 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | North and West of Shetland, Balta Sound |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Gear research | Description: experimental trawling with bottom gears |
| Gear research | Description: filming, use of shipborne computer for gear research |
