RV Cirolana CIR8/89
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR8/89 |
| Cruise period | 1989-09-27 — 1989-10-25 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To survey of distribution of radiocaesium and other selected radionuclides in the waters of the above localities.
2. (Additional) To survey the distribution of tritium in the surface water of the Bristol Channel. |
| Chief scientist | Peter G W Jones (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.13 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Barents Sea English Channel North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Norwegian Sea/ Barents Sea |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 92 Description: T/S bottom and S surface at 191 stations |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 86 |
| Geochemical tracers (eg freons) | Quantity: number of stations = 3 Description: Gamma probe |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 321 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 2 Description: Day grab. |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 2 Description: Boomerang corer. |
