Vessel Operations :: R/V Cape Fear :: Equipment
The R/V Cape Fear can be equipped with the following:
CTD Profilers (2)
- Seabird Electronics SBE-25 with SBE-33 Deck Unit and SBE-32 Water Carousel
- Seabird Electronics SBE-19plus
- Auxiliary CTD sensors: Dissolved Oxygen, pH (2), Light Transmission, PAR, chlorophyll a fluorescence, Turbidity
Oceanographic Winch
- SeaMac 302 EHS with IEC-BXU Slip-Rings (8 conductor)
- Maximum capacity: 1250' of 0.355"cable
Thermsalinograph
- Seabird SBE-21
- Auxiliary sensors: chlorophyll a fluorescence, light transmission
Side Scan Sonar
- Edgetech DF-1000 Digital Dual Frequency Towfish (100/400 kHz)
- Humminbird 1198c SI Dual Frequency hull-mounted transducers or towfish (455/800 kHz)
Sub-Bottom Profiler
- GeoAcoustics Boomer plate with solid state power supply
- GeoAcoustics hydrophone
Survey Data Acquisition PC
- Intel Core 2 Duo @2.93 Ghz (3.24 GB RAM) running Windows XP
- RAID 5 hard drive configuration with 500 GB storage
- Triton ISIS v 7.0.106.0 for Edgetech DF-1000 side scan sonar
- Triton SB-Logger 1.6.106.0 for GeoAcoustics sub bottom profiler
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