RV Cefas Endeavour 03/18
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cefas Endeavour (74E9) |
| Cruise identifier | 03/18 |
| Cruise period | 2018-01-31 — 2018-02-07 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Aims
1. Service SmartBuoys at Dowsing, Warp and West Gabbard. 2. Service Waverider at Firth of Forth, Tyne/Tees, and South Knock. 3. Service Waverider and guard buoy at Torness. 4. Service noise landers at Dowsing and Warp. 5. Service South Knock and Southwold guard buoys. 6. Nutrient mapping. 7. Collection of zooplankton samples at West Gabbard. Plan RV Cefas Endeavour will sail at about 21:00 on Wednesday 31st January 2018 and steam northward to service the SmartBuoy and the noise lander at Dowsing. While collecting discrete water samples from the FerryBox flow through, the Endeavour will keep moving northward for servicing the Waveriders at Tyne/Tees and at the Firth of Forth. On the following day, during daylight, the Torness Waverider and guard buoy will be serviced. The nuclear power station at Torness will listen in to the toolbox talk on the bridge before recovering the Waverider and guard buoy. The RV will then steam in south via Lowestoft, collecting water samples as required. Dave Pearce, Tobias Boehme and Tom Hull will be taken ashore off Lowestoft. The Endeavour will then carry on steaming south to service the SmartBuoy at the Warp and a Waverider and guard buoy at South Knock, followed by the service of the West Gabbard2 SmartBuoy and the Southwold guard buoy - exact order of operations to be determined in consultation with the Master. A vertical net sample for zooplankton analysis will also be collected at West Gabbard 2. The Endeavour will return to port in Lowestoft on the 14:00 tide, 7th February. If the weather is poor the route may be revised. |
| Chief scientist | Elisa Capuzzo (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.22 MB) |
| Cruise report | (0.66 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea Celtic Sea |
| Specific | East UK coast (Firth of Forth, Torness, Tyne/Tees, Dowsing, Southwold, West Gabbard, South Knock) |
