RV Keary KRY20_03 (KRY20_CHERISH)
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Keary (45KY) |
| Cruise identifier | KRY20_03 (KRY20_CHERISH) |
| Cruise period | 2020-09-01 — 2020-09-19 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Arklow, Ireland |
| Port of return | Dun Laoghaire, Ireland |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | CHERISH (Climate, Heritage and Environments of Reefs, Islands and Headlands) is a 6 year (2017-2023) European-funded Ireland-Wales project between the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, Aberystwyth University: Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and Geological Survey Ireland. The project will receive €5.1 million through the Ireland-Wales 2014-2020 Interreg Programme.
CHERISH is a cross-disciplinary project. It raises awareness and understanding of the past, present and near future impacts of climate change, storminess and extreme weather events on the rich cultural heritage of the Irish and Welsh regional seas and coast. It employs innovative techniques to study some of the most iconic coastal locations in Ireland and Wales. The CHERISH project identified two sites in Cardigan and Caernarfon Bays for which the project required detailed bathymetric surveys (Sarn Badrig and Dinas Dinlle). Three main site types were targeted: reefs, headlands, and shipwrecks. Reefs for multibeam surveys included Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay, while headlands included Dinas Dinlle in Caernarfon Bay. The wreck of “The Bronze Bell off Tel Y Bont, Gwynedd” (hereafter “The Bronze Bell”) was selected due to its designated status. Headland bathymetry will be used to generate seamless onshore-offshore maps. Multibeam surveying was carried out in depths <50m using the Geological Survey research vessel Keary which is equipped with a Kongsberg EM 2040 D multibeam echosounder between the 1st and 19th September 2020. Sub-bottom profiling using an Edgetech CHIRP 3200 was conducted along all survey lines. Authorisation for the KRY20_CHERISH survey was received from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Ref: 66/2020), permitting surveying between 16th August and 4th October 2020. A license to survey the wreck of “The Bronze Bell” was also obtained from the Historic Environment Service of the Welsh Government Cadw. |
| Chief scientist | Jess Murray (Geological Survey of Ireland) |
| Project | Climate, Heritage and Environments of Reefs, Islands and Headlands (CHERISH) |
| Cruise report |  (2.49 MB) (9.23 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Unknown |
| Specific | Coast of Wales |
