Category: Oceanographic Cruises

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.

We head for Gibraltar; while anchored in the harbour an American warship arrives; we see Atlantic and Mediterranean waters meet; then set a mooring in the Gulf of Cadiz…

Measuring the Mediterranean outflow in the Gulf of Cadiz using current meters, a free fall probe, and an em sphere which is reluctant to come to the surface…

Notes from my cruise diary about the science programme to be conducted in the Gulf of Cadiz: (1) a current meter mooring and TSD work in the Mediterranean outflow.

Notes from my cruise diary about the science programme to be conducted in the Gulf of Cadiz: (2) Near bottom currents using a Tripod and an EM log mounted on a sphere.

Notes from my cruise diary about the science programme to be conducted in the Gulf of Cadiz: (3) Shear and Richardson number determination using a free-fall probe.

We are forced to abandon the EM log sphere; the current meters are lost; but we have a party; the tide gauge is laid on the way home…

In June 1970 I was on board RRS Discovery Cruise 34  for the 1970 JASIN Trial. Having left Barry on the 2nd June, on 4th...