RV Sea Vigil SV2A
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Sea Vigil (74S9) |
| Cruise identifier | SV2A |
| Cruise period | 1993-08-03 — 1993-08-03 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Hull, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Hull, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | To obtain measurements of the optical characteristics and water quality within the Humber Estuary during synchronous airborne CASI (Compact Airborne Spectral Imager) overflights for the development of algorithms and atmospheric corrections. |
| Chief scientist | Tony Bale (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) |
| Project | LOIS (RACS) |
| Cruise report |  (4.56 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Specific | Humber Estuary and feeder rivers |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Optics (eg underwater light levels) | Description: Vertical profiles carried out at the Spurn Light Float and off Bull Sand Fort. |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Gear research | Description: Trials of the Undulating Oceanographic Recorder, experimenting with various length of towing wire. |
| Data held at BODC | |
| Discrete samples | |
| 2 Undulating Oceanographic Recorder Tow |
