RV Corystes COR3A/89
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR3A/89 |
| Cruise period | 1989-02-21 — 1989-03-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Workington, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To carry out propulsion trials.
2. To collect surface seawater samples at all stations on the proposed track and at selected stations to collect midwater and/or near bottom seawater samples for radiocaesium analysis. 3. To collect surface seawater at selected stations in the vicinity of UKAEA Winfrith to determine cobalt speciation and suspended particle load. |
| Chief scientist | A K Steele (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.11 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | English Channel, Irish Sea and West of Scotland |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 112 Description: with salinity at surface and bottom |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 106 |
| Contamination | |
| Suspended matter |
