RV Clione CLI13B/87
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI13B/87 |
| Cruise period | 1987-10-23 — 1987-11-01 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out a monitoring survey of the Bristol Channel sewage sludge dumpsite using grabbing, coring and dredging.
2. To survey the proposed Hasting Shingle Bank aggregate extraction site using sidescan sonar with grabbing for ground truth, trawling and dredging. 3. To survey the Nab Tower sewage sludge dumpsite using grabbing, coring and dredging. All the aims were successfully achieved. |
| Chief scientist | Steven M Rowlatt (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.07 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea Bristol Channel |
| Specific | Bristol Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter | Quantity: number of samples = 5 |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 2 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 19 |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 135 |
| Bottom photography | Description: motion picture |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Description: Hastings Shingle Bank surveyed using side-scan sonar. |
