Celtic Explorer CE12008
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Celtic Explorer (45CE) |
| Cruise identifier | CE12008 |
| Cruise period | 2012-06-10 — 2012-06-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Castletownbere, Ireland |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To ground-truth, by vibrocoring, seismic and swath bathymetric data previously acquired by the Marine Institute (INFOMAR programme) and the applicant onboard the Celtic Voyager in 2010. The main aim of the project is to identify sea level lowstands in the Irish Sea, which occurred after the Last Glacial Maximum. This is a follow-up of a cruise CV11010 which took place in June 2010 onboard the Celtic Voyager. |
| Chief scientist | J Andrew Cooper (University of Ulster School of Environmental Sciences) |
| NPRC |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Celtic Sea |
| Specific | Belfast Lough. Isle of Man (south). Cardigan Bay. |
