RRS Charles Darwin CD143
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Charles Darwin (74AB) |
| Cruise identifier | CD143 |
| Cruise period | 2002-11-22 — 2002-12-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Muscat, Oman |
| Port of return | Muscat, Oman |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Multi-disciplinary. Geological and biological surveys of the Arabian Sea and the continental slope of Oman. The main objectives of the cruise were to produce a map of the bathymetry of the area and to investigate the geological processes that are, and have been, active. |
| Chief scientist | Colin L Jacobs (Southampton Oceanography Centre) |
| Project | SCHEHEREZADE II |
| Cruise report |  (3.67 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Arabian Sea Gulf of Oman |
| Track charts | (5.20 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| CTD stations | Quantity: number of profiles = 5 Description: Sample: CTD Depth range: 1435-3145m |
| Other physical oceanographic measurements | Quantity: number of profiles = 5 Description: Sample: SVP Depth range: 793-3145m |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of deployments = 8 Description: Sample: Agassiz trawl Depth range: N/A |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 7 Description: Sample: Piston Depth range: 425-3106m |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of deployments = 37 Description: Sample: Megacorer Depth range: 325-3185m |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of deployments = 12 Description: Sample: Plastic gravity corer Depth range: 444-3303m |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of deployments = 18 Description: Sample: Kasten corer Depth range: 210-3185m |
| Bottom photography | Quantity: number of deployments = 21 Description: Sample: SHRIMP deep towed imaging Depth range: 330-3300m |
| Bottom photography | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: Sample: Roughsnap Depth range: 3300m |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of deployments = 5 Description: Sample: Widescan Depth range: N/A |
| Other geological/geophysical measurements | Quantity: number of deployments = 2 Description: Sample: MPV chirp sub-bottom profiler Depth range: N/A |