RV Corella 5/77
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 5/77 |
| Cruise period | 1977-03-23 — 1977-04-01 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | I . To establish an array of current meter stations in the eastern Irish
Sea to complement the array to be laid by IOS Bidston earlier in the month. 2. At each current meter station (both MAFF and IOS) to: a. take water samples for analysis of Caesium 134 and 137, b. work a standard hydrographic station, c. release 50 Woodhead seabed drifters. |
| Chief scientist | J Alan Durance (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.24 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Irish Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: T only |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 26 Description: 42 S surface 26 S bottom |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 11 Description: 11 moorings deployed on this cruise (recovered on Corella cruise 7/77) |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 1300 Description: bottom drifters |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 43 Description: 134-Cs and 137-Cs |
