RV Cirolana CIR6B/74
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR6B/74 |
| Cruise period | 1974-07-17 — 1974-07-31 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Stornoway, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To continue the examination of the budget of artificial radionuclides in the
Irish Sea. 2. To collect seawater samples from selected stations in the Irish Sea for trace element analyses . 3. To collect seawater samples in British Isles coastal waters and the north-east Atlantic for radiocaesium and trace element analyses. 4. To collect core samples of the seabed in deep mud areas of the Bristol Channel for examination of the distribution of Cs-137 and Pb-210 with depth from the surface layers. |
| Chief scientist | Douglas F Jefferies (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.26 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 124 Description: S surface 104 S bottom |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: seawater probe(37 mls continuously) |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Trace elements | Quantity: number of samples = 102 Description: Zn,Mn,Cu,Ni,Co,Cd,Pb,Hg,filtrate suspended |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 124 Description: 134Cs,137Cs,95Zn,95Nb,144Ce,106Ru,90Sr,65Zn,232Pu |
| Contamination | |
| Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 102 Description: chemical pollution |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | Quantity: number of measurements = 114 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 16 Description: van Veen grab |
| Core - rock | Quantity: number of cores = 26 |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 26 |
| In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | Quantity: number of samples = 42 Description: radioactivity msmnts. |
