RRS Challenger CH122
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Challenger (74CH) |
| Cruise identifier | CH122 |
| Cruise period | 1995-09-21 — 1995-10-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Southampton, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Southampton, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Studies of eye design, visual behaviour and bioluminescence of deep sea animals. Three leg cruise. tissue samples for physiological/molecular biological studies |
| Chief scientist | Julian C Partridge (University of Bristol School of Biological Sciences) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | NE Atlantic, Tagus and Horseshoe abyssal plain & around Madeira |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 38 Description: mid-water trawl |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 7 Description: demersal otter trawl |
| Crustaceans | Quantity: number of hauls = 45 Description: 38 mid-water trawl & 7 demerals otter trawl |
