RV Sarsia Turbl IV
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Sarsia (74SR) |
| Cruise identifier | Turbl IV |
| Cruise period | 1977-03-01 — 1977-03-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. Comparative measurements of sand transport between sand impact probe, self-generated noise, underwater TV observtions, pumped sampling and an optical siltmeter.
2. Velocity profile measurements concentrating on (a) measurements on the accelerating part of the tidal cycle, (b) measurements at 8 levels throughout the water depth to examine boundary layer thickness. 3. Deployment of a Marconi current meter system in the trough of sand wave on the Skerries Bank for D N Langhorne. |
| Chief scientist | Keith Dyer (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton) |
| Cruise report |  (0.19 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 1 |
| Current meters | Quantity: 7 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: pumped; physical analysis of sediments |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 1 |
| Bottom photography | Quantity: 1 |
