Prince Madog
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | Prince Madog (74PD) |
| Cruise period | 1984-09-10 — 1984-09-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Menai Bridge, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To conduct a routine monitoring survey of the Liverpool Bay Sewage sludge dumpsite by use of grabbing, coring and trawling.
2. To collect samples of benthos for chemical analysis at MBA. 3. To collect grab and core samples from the relatively uncontaminated area to the west of the sewage sludge dumpsite. |
| Chief scientist | Steven M Rowlatt (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.08 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Irish Sea and St. George's Channel |
| Specific | Liverpool Bay |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 4 Description: a routine sediment monitoring survey of the sewage sludge dumpsite. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 3 Description: beam trawl stations worked. |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 79 Description: grab samples for benthos |
