MEDOC 1970: a Cruise Diary
MEDOC 1970 looked at Mediterranean bottom water formation and outflow into the Atlantic. I’ve reproduced my Diary from this, my first cruise, and added footnotes.
Oceanographic Cruises / MEDOC 1970
by Peter Taylor · Published 21/01/1970 · Last modified 22/03/2021
MEDOC 1970 looked at Mediterranean bottom water formation and outflow into the Atlantic. I’ve reproduced my Diary from this, my first cruise, and added footnotes.
We leave Barry; the stationery cupboard gets trashed; rough weather; I find my sea legs; a fire on the Bridge…
Continuing the passage leg past the Iberian Peninsula; I settle into life on board a Research Cruise…
Photos of Dolphins or Pilot Whales and of rough seas all taken in the Bay of Biscay area (I think!).
We commence TSD Stations in the Gulf of Lion; interrupted by strong winds; a large whale is sighted…
Rendezvous with Jean Charcot; TSD stations continue when the wind allows; I arrange to stay on the cruise; we head for Toulon…
An illustrated explanation of how hydrographic stations were conducted in 1970 using the TSD instrument and reversing bottles.
We dock in Toulon; use hire cars to drive to Monaco and visit the Oceanographic Museum and Rosies Bar; leave Toulon into a gale.
We continue working in the Gulf of Lion; TSD casts when the wind allows, hove-to when it is too strong…
Photographs of the sea taken in the Gulf of Lion during MEDOC 1970.