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RRS Bransfield Bransfield 19921104

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Cruise Info. 
Ship name (ship code)RRS Bransfield (74RD)
Cruise identifierBransfield 19921104
Cruise period1992-11-04 — 1992-12-04
StatusCompleted
Port of departureStanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Port of returnStanley, Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
PurposeResearch
Objectives1) To recover 2 BPR/IES instruments deployed in December 1991 in the western Drake Passage and redeploy these along the Choke Point line between Burdwood Bank and Elephant Island.
2) To recover 2 BPR's from the Scotia Sea.
3) To complete fieldwork on the island stations of the ACCLAIM network at Port Stanley, Signy Island and Faraday and do some provisional work at Rothera with a view to installing a station in 1993/94.
Chief scientistRobert Spencer (Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory)
ProjectACCLAIM
Cruise reportRRS Bransfield Bransfield 19921104 cruise report jr_oct92.pdf (0.55 MB) 
Ocean/sea areas 
GeneralSouth Atlantic Ocean
Track chartsRRS Bransfield Bransfield 19921104 cruise track — jr_oct92track.pdf (0.09 MB)