RRS Discovery D152
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
| Cruise identifier | D152 |
| Cruise period | 1984-10-04 — 1984-10-15 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Falmouth, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Falmouth, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Trials |
| Objectives | The objectives were to test all installed scientific machiney and equipment, conduct hydrodynamic trials of TOBI (Towed Bottom Instrument), conduct trials of the towed thermistor spar, lay a current measuring discus buoy near DB2 and recover the ARIES (Autonomous Recording Inverted Echo-Sounder) mooring near DB2. |
| Chief scientist | J Stuart M Rusby (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.44 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | Tagus Abyssal Plain |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Description: 15h,5 thermistors on spar towed near surface. T only |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | Description: turbulence.ARIES.Autonomous Recording Inverted Echo-Sounder recovered. |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: currents.Near surface current measuring buoy near DB2. |
| Meteorology | |
| Routine standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell;1h,also wind.Including calibration for space shuttle. |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Description: (deep resolution)trial only TOBI.Towed bottom instrument. |
