Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from the Great Meteor Seamount (RRS Discovery Cruise 153)

The objectives of RRS Discovery Cruise 153 were to provide information related to the testing for an oceanic disposal of high-level radiocative waste, to obtain a photographic traverse from the abyssal plain on to an abyssal hill and to search for variation in occurrence of manganese nodules, number and type of benthos, and evidence of current erosion.