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Item 201

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id 201
cruise_alias None
additional_info Positioning systems: Magnavox satellite navigation system integrated with MX610 dopplar sonar and Arma Brown Mk1 Mod 5 or Mk1C gyro compass. Also Decca main chain receiver with optional integration with the above. Data logged to a Camac data logger or Monitor Labs 9400 data logger Echo sounder system: Atlas Deso 10 with hull mounted transducers and Edig 10 digitiser unit Side scan sonar systems: UDI AS350 dual channel sidescan with catamaran tow fish. Display was on an EPC 3200 graphic recorder. Also a Kelvin Hughes Ms47 transit sonar, hull mounted. Airgun system: Bolt 600B, 2 guns with standar (1-40 cubic inch) range of chamber sizes, Kemi bandpass filter, TSS Model 307 TVG amplifier and display on a EPC 4600 or EPC 3200 graphic recorder. The hydrophone was a Geomecanique 2 channel, 30m, or 50m. Watergun system: Soder Mica-T 80 cubic inch syste, with recording as for the airgun Sparker system: EG&G sparker with up to 5kJ. One 3-element and 1 9-element spark array, Kemo bandpass filter, TSS Model 307 TVG amplifier, TSS Model 302 swell filter and display on a EPC 4600 or EPC 3200 graphic recorder. The hydrophone was a Teledyne 7 channel 10m system. Pinger system: Edo Western 248 pinger, 3.5kHz, 10kW hull mounted transducer. Used with TSS Model 302 swell filter and displayed on a EPC 3200 graphic recorder. Huntec deep-tow boomer: system fitted with adaptive processing unit, Krohn-hite filter and display on a EPC 3200 graphic recorder. Gravity meter: LaCoste and Romberg S75 air-sea system. Worden land gravity meter used for land ties. Magnetometer: Barringer proton magnetometer. For more detailed information see the Cruise Report.
confidentiality unclassified (open file)
restitle Geophysical Survey 1982/3: Southern North Sea (19/06/1982 to 12/10/1982)
nav_equip_type Decca Main Chain, Transit satellite
accessuse_restric unrestricted use, copyright acknowledgement
ship MV Sperus
geophys_equip_type Airgun/Sleeve Gun, Deep Tow Boomer, Echo Sounder, Gravimeter, Magnetometer, Pinger, Sidescan Sonar, Sparker, Surface Tow Boomer, Water Gun
terms_of_use Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced British Geological Survey materials "Contains British Geological Survey materials ©UKRI [year]"
client British Geological Survey
samp_equip_type None
terms_of_use_url http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
contractor British Geological Survey
start_date 1982-06-19 00:00:00
mdfileid_nerc_guid abc9f747-53c0-0f38-e044-0003ba9b0d98
cruise_area CP2 Regional Sea Boundaries: Northern North Sea, Southern North Sea, Offshore 1:250k: Borders, California, Cod, Dogger, Farne, Fisher, Forties, Indefatigable, Ling Bank, Marr Bank, Silver Well, Swallow Hole, Tay-Forth, Tyne-Tees, SeaVoX Sub-Ocean: NORTH SEA
start_date_est Estimated
cruise_data_url None
abstract Report: Brett, CP. 1982. Operations report on project 82/03, a regional geophysical survey in the southern North Sea. (IGS Report No 129)
end_date 1982-10-12 00:00:00
cruise 1982/3
end_date_est Estimated