RRS Discovery D98
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
| Cruise identifier | D98 |
| Cruise period | 1978-12-27 — 1979-01-10 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Recife, Brazil |
| Port of return | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Purpose | Passage |
| Objectives | Cruise 98 was primarily a passage leg from Recife, Brazil, to Cape Town, South Africa. Work on passage consisted of:
(a) two hourly XBTs to 750m (b) towed magnetometer (c) echo sounding (d) surface temperature and salinity profiler (e) a tide gauge was laid n the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. (f) trials of an acoustic doppler log were carried out. |
| Chief scientist | Raymond T Pollard (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.31 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | South Atlantic Ocean |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: track kilometres = 5556 |
| Bathythermograph | Quantity: number of profiles = 162 |
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | Quantity: 1 Description: deep-sea tide gauge,laid at 17-04.3S;13-39.6W to be recovered by the ship Jean Charcot during 1979 |
| Meteorology | |
| Routine standard measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 5556 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 5556 |
| Magnetic measurements | Quantity: track kilometres = 5556 |
