FRV Scotia 1103S
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |||||||||
| Ship name (ship code) | FRV Scotia (748S) | ||||||||
| Cruise identifier | 1103S | ||||||||
| Cruise period | 2003-07-24 — 2003-07-27 | ||||||||
| Status | Completed | ||||||||
| Port of departure | Aberdeen, United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Port of return | Aberdeen, United Kingdom | ||||||||
| Purpose | Research | ||||||||
| Objectives | To undertake an intensive swathe bathymetry and RoxAnn survey of specified areas of the cSAC in the Moray Firth and to collect sea-truth data to verify the RoxAnn data. At present the effort will be concentrated in the area of the Guillam Bank but, should time allow, a preliminary survey of the area around the Beatrice Oil installations will also be conducted. | ||||||||
| Chief scientist | Derek C Moore (Fisheries Research Services Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) | ||||||||
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) | ||||||||
| Ocean/sea areas | |||||||||
| General | North Sea | ||||||||
| Specific | Moray Firth: Guillam Bank, Beatrice Oil field and Southern Trench | ||||||||
| Track charts | (0.21 MB) | ||||||||
| Measurements | |||||||||
| Biology and fisheries | |||||||||
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of deployments = 14 Description: sediment grabs for benthic macrofauna survey over Guillam Bank. | ||||||||
| Geology and geophysics | |||||||||
| Multi-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 772 Description: Swathe surveys of Guillam bank, Inner Moray Firth, the locale of Beatrice Oil field, Outer Moray Firth and Southern Trench | ||||||||
| Moorings, landers, buoys | |||||||||
| Physical oceanography | |||||||||
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | 57° 43' 32" N 3° 50' 31" W — Tide gauge for corrections to swathe data | ||||||||
| Data held at BODC | Get data | ||||||||
| Series/Profiles | |||||||||
| 1 Bottom pressure sensor tide gauge | Date and time Temperature of the water column Sea level
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