RRS Challenger CH16/81
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Challenger (74CH) |
| Cruise identifier | CH16/81 |
| Cruise period | 1981-10-25 — 1981-11-08 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Ardrossan, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | South Shields, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To deploy V.A.C.M./camera tripod.
2. To recover moorings I1 - I4 and relay I2 and I4. 3. To deploy 3 new moorings, E2, E3 and G3. 4. To carry out profiling current meter sections across the Faroe-Shetland Channel. 5. To test near bottom echo sounder for use on neutrally buoyant floats. |
| Chief scientist | John W Cherriman (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.14 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | N.E. Atlantic/ N. & W. Scotland |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 9 Description: 4 moorings total of 15 c.m;6 months |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Bottom photography | Description: see D01 |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 580 |
