MV Whitethorn 75/WH/17
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | MV Whitethorn (74WT) |
| Cruise identifier | 75/WH/17 |
| Cruise period | 1975-08-15 — 1975-09-02 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To sample the sea bed and underlying strata of the area in the vicinity of Brent.
Sampling equipment consisted of an electrically operated IGS vibrocorer, gravity corer, shipek grab, and sediment dredge, which were operated during a daylight 12 hour period. Geophysical equipment, namely an ORE pinger, Atlas Deso echo sounder, and 1000J EC & G sparker and recorder toothbrush array and 263C hydrophone were run during the night. |
| Chief scientist | John A Chesher (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (2.40 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Norwegian Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 4 Description: physical analysis of sediments |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 31 Description: physical analysis of sediments |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 31 Description: physical analysis of sediments |
| In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | Description: engineering properties |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 1019 |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 1019 |
