RV Cefas Endeavour 15/05
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cefas Endeavour (74E9) |
| Cruise identifier | 15/05 |
| Cruise period | 2005-10-05 — 2005-10-12 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To conduct a standard underwater TV survey of Nephrops burrow densities on the Farn Deeps grounds, 55° 35' - 54° 45' N and 1° 30' - 0° 40' W, and to evaluate Nephrops abundance for comparison with previous years. |
| Chief scientist | Andrew Raymond Lawler (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Lowestoft Laboratory) |
| Cruise programme |  (0.01 MB) |
| Cruise report | (0.15 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | English NE Coast |
| Track charts | (0.12 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Bottom photography | Quantity: number of deployments = 105 Description: Underwater TV. Provisional counts of burrows were obtained for a minimum of 10 minutes at each site, with video images being recorded for further laboratory analysis. |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: Remote acoustic seabed discrimination system (QTC) logged transects between each and during each station. |
