RV Zirfaea SCANS II
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Zirfaea (64ZF) |
| Cruise identifier | SCANS II |
| Cruise period | 2005-06-29 — 2005-07-29 |
| Status | Completed |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Cetacean survey. 4284.1 km were surveyed, including some underway survey effort in the channel. 3063.1 km was covered in dual platform mode and an additional 632.6 km on single platform. 190 sightings were recorded from the primary platform and 230 sightings from the tracker platform. Eight cetacean species were recorded (of which one species, killer whales (Orcinus orca), occurred off effort), with the majority of sightings being common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) and harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) but also with a large number of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) sightings. |
| Chief scientist | Philip Hammond (University of St Andrews, School of Biology, Sea Mammal Research Unit) |
| Cruise report |  (0.46 MB) |
| NPRC | (0.17 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel Celtic Sea Bay of Biscay |
