RV Corystes COR3/95
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corystes (74RY) |
| Cruise identifier | COR3/95 |
| Cruise period | 1995-02-25 — 1995-03-06 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | North Shields, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To recover the Tetrapod, STABLE II and Quadrapod from off the Holderness coast. A POL (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory) waverider buoy will also be recovered (AE0207A0).
2. To recover a line of 4 Minipods perpendicular to the Holderness Coast (AE0207A0). 3. To conduct a survey of the Holderness Coast and Humber area with the Sidescan, ADCP and RoxAnn (AE0207A0). 4. To test a new VHF tracking system on the Argos buoy with revised transmitter. 5. To evaluate and calibrate the new RoxAnn seabed discrimination system over a range of sediment types and depths. 6. To evaluate a new Sidescan digitiser/storage unit over a range of bedform types. |
| Chief scientist | Jonathon Mark Rees (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.30 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Holderness, Yorkshire and North Norfolk coasts |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of stations = 6 Description: 5 near bed velocity meters recovered |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: activity duration in days = 7 Description: days side scan survey |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current meters | 53° 49' 0" N 0° 7' 0" E — Near bed velocity meter recovered |
| Current meters | 53° 42' 0" N 0° 4' 59" E — Near bed velocity meter recovered |
| Current meters | 53° 46' 59" N 0° 13' 59" E — |
| Current meters | 53° 51' 0" N 0° 9' 0" E — Near bed velocity meter recovered |
| Current meters | 53° 43' 0" N 0° 6' 0" E — Near bed velocity meter recovered |
| Current meters | 53° 43' 59" N 0° 7' 0" E — Near bed velocity meter recovered |
