Veracious II 2004H
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Veracious II |
| Cruise identifier | 2004H |
| Cruise period | 2004-08-09 — 2004-08-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Peterhead, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Peterhead, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To undertake a biological baseline survey of the Buzzard platform site prior to installation of the platform itself, including a control area outside the future exclusion zone. |
| Chief scientist | Emma Jones (Fisheries Research Services Aberdeen Marine Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.03 MB) |
| Cruise report | (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Outer Moray Firth (Buzzard Platform) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current profiler (eg ADCP) | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: At Buzzard site ROBIO was deployed with a mooring line to the surface and a marker buoy. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of surveys = 7 Description: 30 min tows were carried out along the transect running from the rig site out to the control zone. |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of surveys = 7 Description: 30 min tows were carried out along the transect running from the rig site out to the control zone. |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 10 Description: Grab samples were collected for sediment samples. |
| Grab | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: At Buzzard site ROBIO was deployed with a mooring line to the surface and a marker buoy. |
| Bottom photography | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 Description: At Buzzard site ROBIO was deployed with a mooring line to the surface and a marker buoy. |
