Excel
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name | Excel |
| Cruise period | 1983-05-11 — 1983-05-13 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Ilfracombe, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Ilfracombe, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The principal objective was to replace the offshore marker buoy mooring, which came ashore during gales in March, with a new mooring incorporating greater ballast and less buoyancy. In addition, depending upon time and conditions it wa splanned to:
1. Check coordinates for Rigs 1 and 2. 2. Develop a calibration technique for determining the absolute height of the digiquartz transducer mounted on offshore rig 1. 3. Echosound offshore extensions of the 4 section lines regularly surveyed down to LWM. 4. Carry out land survey of sections. |
| Chief scientist | Alan P Carr (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Taunton) |
| Cruise report |  (0.06 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Bristol Channel Celtic Sea |
| Specific | Morte Bay, Woolacombe, N. Devon |
