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RV Cirolana CIR10/77
Cruise summary report
Cruise Info. | |
Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
Cruise identifier | CIR10/77 |
Cruise period | 1977-09-20 — 1977-10-04 |
Status | Completed |
Port of departure | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
Purpose | Research |
Objectives | 1. To continue the examination of the distribution of Caesium-134, Caesium-137, Plutonium-238, Plutonium-239/240 and Americium-241 in seawater of the Irish Sea and its approaches.
2. To collect and weigh the total suspended load in seawater at selected stations. 3. To collect grab and/or core samples of the seabed in the Irish Sea and off the west and north coast of Scotland. 4. To record the gamma count rate, in a selected energy range, from surface seawater of the Irish Sea and at depth in the vicinity of B.N.F.L. Windscale |
Chief scientist | Douglas F Jefferies (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
Cruise report | (0.32 MB) |
Ocean/sea areas | |
General | North Sea Norwegian Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
Track charts | |
Measurements | |
Physical oceanography | |
Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: T only |
Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 134 Description: S surface 49 S bottom |
Chemical oceanography | |
Radioactivity | Description: cont.radioactivity msmnts. |
Contamination | |
Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 134 Description: 134Cs & 137Cs Msmnts of transuranic elements in sea water,suspended load and sediment at selected sts |
Biology and fisheries | |
Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of samples = 139 Description: monitoring & surveillance |
Geology and geophysics | |
Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 57 Description: physical analysis of sediments |
Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 7 |
Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 57 Description: radiochemical analysis of sediments |