RV Clione CLI2/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Clione (74CN) |
| Cruise identifier | CLI2/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-01-12 — 1973-01-24 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To conduct a bottom topography survey off Boulby, N Yorkshire (proposed
disposal area for potash waste). 2. To conduct a bottom topography, sediment and benthos survey in the vicinity of the Sunk (ie new dumping grounds for sewage, sludge and spoil). 3. To conduct a bottom topography survey in the Barrow Deep. 4. To assess the incidence of lymphocystis and other diseases in flatfish stocks off the Rivers Tyne, Humber & Thames. |
| Chief scientist | Michael S Rolfe (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Burnham Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.23 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Contamination | |
| Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 33 Description: solid waste pollution |
| Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 33 Description: chemical pollution |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Zoobenthos | Quantity: number of samples = 33 |
| Pelagic fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 17 |
| Demersal fish | Quantity: number of hauls = 17 |
| Other biological/fisheries measurement | Quantity: number of samples = 17 Description: biological pollutants |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of samples = 33 Description: grabbing survey near a sunken LV in The IHB04;chemical analysis |
| Long/short range side scan sonar | Quantity: number of surveys = 3 Description: sector scanner;1 mile off Boulby,Nt.Yorksh.;near sunken LV in The IHB04;Barrow Deep,off the Thames Estuary |
