FRV Clupea 0579C
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Clupea (74CU) |
| Cruise identifier | 0579C |
| Cruise period | 1979-04-30 — 1979-05-10 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of return | Buckie, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To monitor the rate of dilution of segregated ballast from a tanker discharging into Sullom Voe.
2. To conduct hydrographic and chemical surveys in Busta Voe and in Sullom Voe including sampling of hydrocarbon and heterotrophic analysis. 3. To evaluate the CSTD recorder. 4. To lay and recover 4 sets of Sedimentation Traps in Sullom Voe. 5. To collect benthos samples near the oil terminal area. |
| Chief scientist | J H Anthony Martin (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.10 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Sullom Voe |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 81 |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Oxygen | Quantity: number of stations = 17 |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of stations = 30 |
| Total - P | Quantity: number of stations = 19 |
| Nitrate | Quantity: number of stations = 75 |
| Ammonia | Quantity: number of stations = 16 |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of stations = 85 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | |
| Petroleum residues | |
| Bottom deposits | |
| Contaminants in organisms | |
| Other contaminant measurements | Description: waste water:other |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | Quantity: number of stations = 16 |
