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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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*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