RV Lough Foyle LF/11/95
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/11/95 |
| Cruise period | 1995-06-12 — 1995-06-16 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To assess temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions in the north westrn Irish Sea.
To recover, service and redeploy instrumentation moored in the central Irish Sea. To asses water current movement with depth, over selected areas of the cruise track, using the ship's acoustic doppler current profiling system. To recover MAFF moorings and instrumentation from two sites in the North Channel. |
| Chief scientist | Brian Stewart (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | North western and central Irish Sea, and North Channel. |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Description: Water samples and a CTD depth profile aquired. Number of samples taken not noted. |
| CTD stations | Description: Water samples and a CTD depth profile aquired. Number of samples taken not noted. |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | 53° 51' 9" N 5° 34' 11" W — Mooring was assembled and redeployed |
| Transparency (eg transmissometer) | 53° 51' 10" N 5° 33' 35" W — Recovery of mooring, sediment traps, current meters and a transmissometer. |
| Current meters | 53° 51' 10" N 5° 33' 35" W — Recovery of mooring, sediment traps, current meters and a transmissometer. |
| Current meters | 53° 51' 9" N 5° 34' 11" W — Mooring was assembled and redeployed |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Sediment traps | 53° 51' 10" N 5° 33' 35" W — Recovery of mooring, sediment traps, current meters and a transmissometer. |
| Sediment traps | 53° 51' 9" N 5° 34' 11" W — Mooring was assembled and redeployed |
