MV Whitethorn 2/83 Leg 1
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | MV Whitethorn (74WT) |
| Cruise identifier | 2/83 Leg 1 |
| Cruise period | 1983-04-14 — 1983-04-27 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Hull, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Scrabster, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The object of this leg was to complete the vibrocorer stations planned for the Fair Isle Sheet together with selected gravity cover sites. This was so as to leave the following leg free for occupying the 6m drill sites and additional gravity cover sites required to finish the sheet. Due to better than anticipated weather, the majority of the planned sites were completed. |
| Chief scientist | John A Chesher (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (2.43 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | North Sea/North Atlantic |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 513 |
| Core - rock | Quantity: 3 |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 354 |
| In-situ seafloor measurement/sampling | Quantity: 29 Description: sampling by divers |
