RV Cirolana CIR4A/96
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR4A/96 |
| Cruise period | 1996-04-01 — 1996-04-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Objectives | Physical oceanography in two areas of the Irish Sea. The first was between Cumbria and the Isle of Man. The second was between 4 and 6 W at 53.75N. Recovery of two current meter stations in the Southern North Sea. |
| Chief scientist | William John Meadows (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of stations = 11 |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of stations = 10 Description: 12 current meters deployed, 2 recovered |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 4 Description: ARGOS-tracked drifting buoys deployed |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 3 |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Description: side scan survey |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current meters | 51° 49' 59" N 1° 28' 0" E — nearbed cm recovery |
| Current meters | 54° 25' 59" N 3° 38' 59" W — 1 cm deployed |
| Current meters | 54° 22' 0" N 3° 52' 0" W — 2 cm deployed |
| Current meters | 54° 17' 59" N 3° 40' 0" W — 2 cm deployed |
| Current meters | 54° 21' 0" N 3° 42' 0" W — nearbed cm deployed |
| Current meters | 51° 52' 59" N 1° 28' 59" E — nearbed cm recovery |
| Current meters | 54° 23' 59" N 3° 45' 0" W — 2 cm deployed |
| Current meters | 54° 19' 59" N 3° 32' 59" W — 1 cm deployed |
| Current meters | 54° 16' 0" N 3° 46' 59" W — 2 cm deployed |
| Current meters | 54° 22' 59" N 3° 37' 0" W — nearbed cm deployed |
