RV Cirolana CIR10/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Cirolana (74CZ) |
| Cruise identifier | CIR10/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-11-30 — 1973-12-20 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Grimsby, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To lay and recover 6 moored current meter stations in a line stretching from Land's End to Ushant.
2. To complete a temperature-salinity and echo-trace survey over the region between the Mid-channel and 7 degrees W. 3. To track the drift of parachute drogues within short-term triangles of moored current meter stations built up from the established line of moored stations. 4. To test: a. the MAFF acoustic release system at a depth of about 600 m and if the test is successful to leave 4 releases out in the field to be recovered by CIROLANA 1/74. (The single line deep mooring in this case to be laid via the free-fall technique from the stern deck). b. Various radar-target structures on the existing surface buoys. |
| Chief scientist | John W Ramster (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.50 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel |
| Specific | 48-40N;06-00W to 50-40N;02-20W |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 53 |
| Current meters | Quantity: number of deployments = 8 |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: drogues |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Multi-beam echosounding |
