MV Whitethorn 3/79
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | MV Whitethorn (74WT) |
| Cruise identifier | 3/79 |
| Cruise period | 1979-05-07 — 1979-07-08 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lerwick, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | CSU = CSU II Edinburgh
Leg 2: The primary objective of this leg of the cruise was to sample the superficial sediments of the Halibut Sheet (Fig 1). The Orkney sheet was also a priority area and parts of the Shetland and Fair Isles sheets were areas that could be sampled during bad weather. The equipment on board was a vibrocorer system, gravity corers, and shipek grab, and a shipek grab camera. |
| Chief scientist | C E Deegan (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (7.58 MB) (6.66 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | North Inland Sea W. Scotland, North Atlantic |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 22 |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 656 |
| Core - rock | Quantity: 165 |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 542 |
