RV Corystes COR6/92
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR6/92 |
| Cruise period | 1992-05-08 — 1992-05-26 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To conduct a survey of an experimentally-dredged site off Norfolk, using grab, dredge, underwater camera, side- and sector-scan sonar.
2. To photograph and sample the dredged area using divers. 3. To conduct a survey at a nearby site used for disposal of gravel-dredgings, using grab, dredge and side-scan sonar. 4. To sample horse-mussels from the Humber/Wash area for biological and chemical analysis. 5. To sample the sediments and benthos at the Tyne sewage-sludge and dredged-material disposal sites using grab, trawl and core. 6. To sample a grid of 23 stations off the north-east coast for the JMG sediment survey. 7. To sample the sediments and benthos at NSTF sites, using grab, core and trawl. 8. To conduct a survey of sediments at the Barrow Deep sewage-sludge disposal site. 9. To sample the sediments and benthos at the Hastings aggregate extration site using grab, dredge, underwater camera and side-scan sonar. 10. To sample the sediments and benthos of gravel deposits off the Isle of Wight, using an Anchor dredge and side-scan sonar. All the aims were successfully achieved. |
| Chief scientist | Hubert Llewelyn Rees (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Project | JMP/NSTF |
| Cruise report |  (0.26 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea |
| Specific | North Sea/English Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 27 |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: underwater TV |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 26 |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 262 Description: Hamon and Day grabs. |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 1 |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of surveys = 4 |
