Tools of the Oceanographer

*Tools of the Oceanographer

*Peterson Grabber -A bottom sampler consisting of two hinged semi-cylindrical

buckets held apart.

*Secchi disk – is used to measure water clarity.

*Trieste - is a submersible vessel with a spherical room for research and observation.

*Purse seine net -a large net towed, usually by two boats, that encloses a school of fish and is then closed at the bottom

*Plankton net - are designed for the safe and secure capture of marine biological specimens

*Alcyone - is a ship operated by the Cousteau Society. It was created as an expedition ship and to test the operation of a new kind of marine propulsion system, the turbosail

*Core Sampler – used to take ocean floor rock samples

*Hydrometer - is an instrument used to measure the specific gravity (or relative density) of liquids

*Conshelf - short for Continental Shelf Station, was a series of undersea living and research stations undertaken by Jacques Cousteau's team in the 1960s

*Dredge -an apparatus for bringing up objects or mud from a river or seabed by scooping or dragging

*Water Collecting bottle – used to collect

water samples at varying depths.

*Alvin - is a manned deep-ocean research submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

*Side-scan Sonar - is used to efficiently create an image of large areas of the sea floor

*Reversing Thermometer -device for measuring underwater temperature and pressure

*Aluminaut - was built in 1964 and was the world's first aluminum submarine

*Dip net - a bag net with a handle that is used especially to scoop fish from the water

*Current meter - oceanographic device for flow measurement

*Flip - is an open ocean research vessel

*Nansen bottle - is a device for obtaining samples of seawater at a specific depth

*Underwater camera