RV Cirolana CIR8A/71
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR8A/71 |
| Cruise period | 1971-09-28 — 1971-10-07 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Objectives | 1. To continue the examination of the budget of artificial radionuclides in
the Irish Sea. 2. To collect seawater samples from the Irish Sea for trace element analysis. 3. Collection of seawater samples in the North Sea and north-east Atlantic to determine caesium-137 and trace element concentrations. 4. Further tests of total gamma counting above the sea surface to discriminate between background radiation and radioactive discharge situations. 5. Collection of zooplankton at selected stations and samples of haddock at 2 stations for Dr J H Steele, DAFS, for trace element analysis within the IDOE programme. |
| Chief scientist | Douglas F Jefferies (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.22 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea Irish Sea and St. George's Channel Bristol Channel |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 55 Description: 17 top & bottom only 2 with T & 2 with S only |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Trace elements | Quantity: number of samples = 55 |
| Radioactivity | Quantity: number of samples = 55 |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
