Cape Shore 78/CS/06 Leg 5
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Cape Shore |
| Cruise identifier | 78/CS/06 Leg 5 |
| Cruise period | 1978-06-16 — 1978-06-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lerwick, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Objective:
To complete sampling the seabed in the area west of Shetland before proceeding southwards to the Malin Sea where further work was required. Only 3 days work were carried out west of Shetland. Weather was generally poor and considerably affected the work programme but did not result in much downtime. Priority was given to the completion of sampling the surface sediments and Quaternary deposits with the vibrocorer. The weather prevented much work in the Malin Sea area west of Islay but as no vibrocoring had previously been carried out so the work was useful. Gravity coring was successful although half a gravity core was lost overboard. One Shipek grab was lost and a further two damaged due to excessive drift. The cruise objectives were not satisfactorily carried out due to adverse weather but 139 station sites were still occupied. |
| Chief scientist | Daniel Evans (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (3.25 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Norwegian Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | West Shetland |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 110 Description: Shipek grabs collecting sediment samples |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 29 Description: vibrocores collected |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 110 Description: gravity cores collected |
