RRS Discovery D2
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
| Cruise identifier | D2 |
| Cruise period | 1963-08-23 — 1963-12-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Aden, Yemen |
| Port of return | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The scientific activities of Cruise 2 were largely geological and geophysical and were part of the British Contribution to the International Indian Ocean Expedition. In addition to the thirteen geophysicists and geologists on board there were 5 scientists involved in ocean chemistry, temperature measurements and orthinology making continuous observations. |
| Chief scientist | M N Hill (University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences) |
| Project | International Indian Ocean Expedition |
| Cruise report |  (0.91 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Gulf of Aden Arabian Sea Gulf of Oman |
| Track charts | (0.82 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 26 |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of deployments = 26 Description: Rock dredge. |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 6 |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of cores = 33 Description: Cores and heat flow. |
| Bottom photography | Quantity: number of deployments = 22 Description: Underwater camera. |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: number of surveys = 5 |
