RRS Discovery D59
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
| Cruise identifier | D59 |
| Cruise period | 1974-02-01 — 1974-02-19 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Trials |
| Objectives | To test under realistic oceanographic conditions a number of new or modified instruments and their associtated hardware. Opportunity would also be taken to lay a mooring with one current meter on the shelf, a mooring with two current meters in deeper water and a deep sea tide gauge. All three units will be recovered in late March on a cruise of RRS John Murray |
| Chief scientist | Brian S McCartney (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.54 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel Bristol Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: T only |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 5 |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 4 |
| Current meters | Quantity: 2 |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: 1 Description: surface drogues |
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | Quantity: 1 Description: deep-sea tide gauge |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of stations = 2 Description: acoustic stations |
| Meteorology | |
| Routine standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Description: instrument development |
