MV Whitethorn 8/79
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | MV Whitethorn (74WT) |
| Cruise identifier | 8/79 |
| Cruise period | 1979-09-17 — 1979-10-08 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The areas selected for work by the m.v. Whitethorn using the unmanned submersible Conbus, and the objectives in each area were as follows:
i) Devils's Hole - inspection, traverses and sediment sampling ii) Forties Area - pockmark investigation including traverses and sediment sampling iii) West Shetland and Foula area - solid rock drilling iv) Continental Slope and north west of Orknet and Shetland - slope traverses, sediment samling and coral investigation. V) Rosemary Bank - solid rock drilling The location of the proposed dives sites are shown in fig.1, and the co-ordinates of the sites in Appendix II. Due to bad weather throughout the cruise, work on objectives 1 and 2 was foregone in order to obtain shelter. |
| Chief scientist | John A Chesher (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (5.84 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | North Sea, Inland Sea W. Scotland, North Atlantic |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 203 |
| Core - rock | Quantity: 49 |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 159 |
| Bottom photography | Quantity: 7 |
| In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | Quantity: 9 Description: sampling by submersible |
