MV Bon Accord Irish Sea Survey,S34
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | MV Bon Accord (74IE) |
| Cruise identifier | Irish Sea Survey,S34 |
| Cruise period | 1979-06-12 — 1979-06-28 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Workington, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The cruise was an initial sedimentological reconnaissance of muddy areas in the NE Irish Sea. The project ultimately aims to establish the fate of fine sediment and the interaction of fine sediments with radionuclides as part of the study of low-level radioactive waste disposal from Windscale. |
| Chief scientist | Robert Kirby (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton) |
| Cruise report |  (0.11 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 15 |
| Bottom photography | |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | |
| Single channel seismic reflection |
