Equipment Lab Equipment To Know!!
Side Scan Sonar 3D image of ocean floor Used to bring back first images of Titanic before submersible went down
Secchi Disk Measures TURBIDITY (clarity) of water Amount of sediments, algae in water column
Trieste Bathyscaphe Reached a record depth of 10,911 meters in the Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard (son of boat’s designer, Auguste Piccard)
CTD Rosette C – Conductivity T – Temperature D – Depth Water Sample Bottles that take samples at different depths for comparison http://deep-dom.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-ctd-rosette.html
Sonde Water Quality Datasonde Turbidity of water Dissolved Oxygen Chlorophyll levels in water
FLIP Floating Instrument Platform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQxQfQU_hsk
AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Programmed to perform task over time Sends data via satellite back to laboratory
ALVIN Submersible that was the first to visit Titanic Owned by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Trawl Net Pulled through water column or close to ocean floor and collects specimens.
Dredge Peterson Grabber Samples of ocean floor sediments
ROV Remote Operated Vehicle (needs pilot) Tethered to ship
SCUBA Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus Allows for ocean exploration with depth limits
Refractometer Measures specific gravity (salinity) of water
Plankton Net Collects samples of plankton Towed behind boat at surface http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUIOdyBdVqU