RV Cefas Endeavour 06/16
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cefas Endeavour (74E9) |
| Cruise identifier | 06/16 |
| Cruise period | 2016-04-18 — 2016-04-19 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Trials |
| Objectives | Cefas have taken delivery of a major capital item in January (Deep water camera system) and are required to prove it in the field before actual use on surveys planned in May/June. A replacement sidescan towfish is also being tested along with some new acoustic beacons obtained as a result of satisfactory trials using the HIPAP positioning system.
On arrival at the survey area (11:30), the new sidescan system was tested and positional accuracy tested. This element of the gear trials was successfully completed at 17:00. The new camera system was then tested using the drop camera frame as a platform, deployed from the side gantry. Camera trials continued until 01:30 (19/04/16) when one of the HD cameras failed. The vessel then transited back to Lowestoft for a timed arrival to meet the pilot. |
| Chief scientist | Suzanne Jayne Ware (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.30 MB) |
| Cruise report | (0.30 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Coast of East Anglia |
