RV Lough Foyle LF/46/98
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Lough Foyle (74LG) |
| Cruise identifier | LF/46/98 |
| Cruise period | 1998-11-10 — 1998-11-11 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To assess temperature, salinity and nutrient distributions over depth at stations 38A and 47.
2. To prvide an assessment of a moored W.S. Ocean automated water sampler. 3. To service moored instrumentation at station 38A. |
| Chief scientist | Brian Stewart (Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland) |
| Cruise report |  (0.14 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Western Irish Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zooplankton | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Rosette water sampler and zooplankton net were deployed. |
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Phytoplankton pigs (eg chlorophyll, fluorescence) | 53° 46' 55" N 5° 38' 9" W — The instrument mooring was recovered, but the sub-surface buoy and McLane sampler had been lost due to a severed wire. The instrument leg and ground line were removed and only the buoy and anchor were redeployed. |
