Vickers Venturer 26/69
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Vickers Venturer |
| Cruise identifier | 26/69 |
| Cruise period | 1969-06-16 — 1969-07-03 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To investigate the process of diffusion, using a continuous source of rhodamine B dye as a tracer, in two representative areas of the Irish Sea
2. To make observations of the physical environment, including the conditions of temperature, salinity and current, in which the diffusion takes place. |
| Chief scientist | Kenneth F Bowden (University of Liverpool Department of Oceanography), Peter Hughes (University of Liverpool Department of Oceanography) |
| Cruise report |  (4.16 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 19 |
| Currents measured from ship drift | Description: anchored vessel |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: parach.drogue |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: dynamic diffusion |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Description: moored ocean.station |
