Celtic Explorer CE14011
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Celtic Explorer (45CE) |
| Cruise identifier | CE14011 |
| Cruise period | 2014-07-15 — 2014-07-27 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Galway, Ireland |
| Port of return | Galway, Ireland |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Slope Collapses on Rockall Bank and Escarpment Habitats
Originally there had been three objectives for SORBEH 1) Lithological characterisation of the Eastern Rockall Bank by sampling areas in and around the Rockall Bank Slide Complex. 2) Habitat investigation of steep escarpments and seabed pinnacles using the Holland I ROV. 3) Make measurements of wave-induced seafloor microseisms using a bespoke sensor array deployed on the way out and retrieved on the way in after 10 days. The third objective had to be abandoned as there were delays with the development and delivery of the sensors array relative to the timing of the cruise. 12 core sites had been planned with two cores intended to be collected from every location. Six ROV dive sites had been targeted for video imaging and five of them for multibeam mapping. The cruise was also planned to be a training opportunity for postgraduate students and therefore preference was given to offering berths to early career scientists. |
| Chief scientist | Aggeliki Georgiopoulou (University College Dublin, School of Geological Sciences) |
| Cruise report |  (3.92 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Eastern Rockall Bank |
