RV Belgica 92/14
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Belgica (11BE) |
| Cruise identifier | 92/14 |
| Cruise period | 1992-12-15 — 1992-12-23 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Zeebrugge, Belgium |
| Port of return | Zeebrugge, Belgium |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To deploy fluorescent sand tracers in the vicinity of Middelkerke Bank, Belgium for the purpose of estimating residual bedload transport pathways. During the cruise, and ADCP and waverider buoy were deployed in order to assess optimum mooring locations for the forthcoming Challenger 100. |
| Chief scientist | Hans Polet (Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Ostend), Jon J Williams (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory) |
| Project | MASTII-CSTAB - Circulation and Sediment Transport Around Banks |
| Coordinating body | CEC/MAST |
| Cruise report |  (0.89 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Southern North Sea. Middelkerke Bank (51 deg 20 N, 2 deg 45 E |
| Track charts |  |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 40 Description: Surficial sediment samples obtained using a Van Veen grab |
| Multi-beam echosounding | Description: Multi-beam echo-sounding in vicinity of Middelkerke Bank |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Description: Side-scan in the vicinity of Middelkerke Bank |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | 51° 20' 6" N 2° 45' 6" E — |
| Instrumented wave measurements | 51° 18' 24" N 2° 46' 12" E — Waverider buoy laid |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 51° 19' 0" N 2° 45' 6" E — Red fluorescent sand tracer deployed |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | 51° 19' 0" N 2° 46' 59" E — Blue fluorescent sand tracer laid |
