RV Celtic Voyager CV15024
Cruise plan
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Celtic Voyager (45CV) |
| Cruise identifier | CV15024 |
| Cruise period | 2015-11-23 — 2015-12-05 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Dun Laoghaire, Ireland |
| Port of return | Dun Laoghaire, Ireland |
| Purpose | Trials |
| Objectives | The Wing-Anchor project is a collaborative trans-Atlantic academic research project, involving partners in Ireland, the United States and the UK. The focus of the project is to develop a novel anchoring system that optimises the use of potential anchor energy to mobilise maximum pull-out capacity with the use of the minimum marine spread, thereby ensuring the most efficient anchor geometry.
The proposed anchor trials are to be conducted in a relatively sheltered area in the Firth of Clyde where past surveys have been performed in an identified area of soft ground. The already well-characterized seabed sediment (Cone Penetration tests and lab tesing has been performed) in the proposed testing site is largely composed of soft mud (approximately 80% silt and clay) that will provide an excellent comparison to the physical model tests undertaken at our partner institutions. |
| Chief scientist | Kenneth Gavin (University College Dublin, School of Civil Engineering) |
| NPRC |  (0.39 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Specific | Firth of Clyde |
