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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