Investigation boat “Benthos”
- Open diving and work boat, dinghy
- Company C. Pischel
- Length, width, depth: 6,9 x 2,8 x 0,7m
- Motor: 100 PS Outboard motor
- Boat equipment: Philips AP-Navigator with differential antenna (Position preciseness better 5m or Leica GS 50, portable measuring- DGPS), Raytheon color echograph
Investigation boat “MariLim II”
- Open diving and work boat
- Aluminium, Company AlumaCraft, type Jon 1648
- Length, Width, Depth: 4,6 x 1,8 x 0,5 m
- Motor: 15 PS Outboard motor or electromotor
- Boat equipment: portable GPS-Navigator with differential antenna or Leica GS 50, portable DGPS, echo sounder, UKW-handheld transceiver
Sampling devices
- van-Veen grabs for the extraction of benthos and sediment samples
- Sediment corers for the extraction of uninterrupted sediment cores
- Fishing gear (dredges, gill- und dragnets, bow nets, devices for electrofishing)
- Multiprobes for the acquistion of chemical and physical parameters
- Water ladle, Plankton nets
Survey and mapping
- Conventional surveying devices for ocean mapping
- Echo sounder for seabed mapping, linked to DGPS
- Under water videosystem with integrated display of GPS position and depth, for seabed mapping (recorded digitally or with S-VHS)
- DGPS devices from LEICA GEOSYSTEMS (GS 50-Sensor with precision of 0,3–1,0 m)
Laboratory equipment
- Binocular stereo magnifiers and microscopes
- Dry laboratories, muffel furnaces
- Analytical balances
- Photometer
- Freeze dryer
- Vacuumpump
- Rotary evaporator
- Ultraturrax/Ultrasonic bath
Diving devices
- diving equipment for nine research divers
- Compressor PE 250-MVE (220 bar)
- UW video 3 Chip-CCD diver-operated (recording digitally or Hi 8)
- UW photo, handheld or frame-supported for planar photography 0,5 x 0,5 m
- Airlift, diver-operated
- Frame and corer for quantitative and uninterupted sampling
- Hoistingballons
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