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There are charges for INMARSAT M, cellular phone calls, and e-mail messages both to and from the ship. All of these communication media use satellite services and are not free. For INMARSAT M and cellular phone usage, the user will log on on board and charges will be billed at cost after the cruise is over. The user will also log all incoming messages. Any unlogged messages, either incoming or outgoing that cannot be attributed to a particular user, will be billed to the chief scientist. E-mail messages will be forwarded to the ship at least once a day and the charges will be billed to the chief scientist at the end of the cruise. For e-mail sent from the ship, see the marine technician. As with INMARSAT and cellular phone messages, these too, will be recorded and billed after the cruise.

RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION AVAILABLE ON R/V CAPE HATTERAS
Indicate desired items and return to Joe Ustach, D/UNCOC

I. Seawater Sampling and Analysis

__ Sea Bird CTD  (6000 m depth limit)
     __ Sea Tech in situ Transmissometer (20 cm path length); 6000 m depth limit
     __ Chelsea Instruments in situ Fluorometer (6000 m depth limit)
     __ Quantum Sensor - Biospherical Instruments QSP-200L  (1000 m depth limit)

__ SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler: (Select one bottle size)
     __ 30-1 Niskin bottles
     __   5-1 Niskin bottles

__ Guildline Model 8410 Portasal Salinometer

__ Turner Designs Model 10 Fluorometer

__ Sippican MK-12 XBT System (probes available at cost)

__  Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, RDI  150 kHz (350 m maximum profiling depth)
      __ DAS Software
      __ TRANSECT Software
 

II.   Bottom Sampling Equipment

__ Piston Corer (barrel lengths expandable to 80 feet in 10-foot increments)
     __ Indicate longest core length planned
     __ Number of 10' core liners needed (Scientist is responsible for liner costs)

__ Box Corer, Ocean Instruments Mark III (50 x50 cm box)

__ Box Corer, Ocean Instruments Soutar (modified with steel frame)

__ Box Corer, Ocean Instruments Multi-corer, MC-800; takes eight 10cm diameter samples.

__ Gravity Corer

__ Shipek Grab

__ Cerame-Vivas rock dredge

III.   Echo Sounding and Seismic Equipment

 Intended Use: __ Accurate water depth determination
                        __ Sub-bottom geological profiling

__ Hull-mounted 3.5 kHz transducers (array of 9 each)
__ Hull-mounted 12 kHz transducers (2 each)

__ ODEC Bathy-2000P CHIRP sub-bottom profiler    

__ EPC Model 9800 thermal graphic recorder

IV.  Miscellaneous Equipment

__ Drying Oven (16" x 12" x 16" inside dimensions): range 40° - 250°C

__ Autoclave (8.5" x 8.5" x 16" inside dimensions)

__ Incubator (32.5" x 23" x 14"; permanently installed in main lab)

__ Freezers (1 ea. chest freezer permanently installed in main lab and 1 ea. stand-up
       freezer permanently installed in wet lab)

__ Simrad/Taiyo Model TD-L1550 VHF Automatic Direction Finder – all channels

__ 2 12 kHz Benthos Pingers, 1 model 2216 and 1 model BFP-312

__ Inflatable work boat:  Avon 19' - 8 person capacity

__ SCUBA Diving
      __ 80 cubic feet aluminum air cylinders (12 available)

V.   CAPE HATTERAS Shipboard Computer System   (SCS)

The following instruments/sensors are monitored continuously through the cruise.  Data are stored in comma and quote delimited file format on IBM compatible media.

 Date & Time (GMT)
 Differential GPS
 Loran C
 Gyrocompass Heading
 Air Temperature
 Barometric Pressure
 Relative Humidity
 Wind Speed & Direction (RM Young anemometers, port & starboard)
 Photosynthetically Active Radiation (Licor Quantum Sensor)
 Sea Surface Temperature (SeaBird SBE 21 Flow-Thru system w/ remote temp. sensor)
 Sea Surface Salinity (SeaBird SBE 21)
 Sea Surface Fluorescence (Turner Fluorometer with data as voltages)
 Water Depth (shallow)
 Water Depth (3.5 and 12 kHz)
 
Additional instruments/sensors brought on board by the science party may be interfaced to this system.

Contact the technical staff for more details.

Copy Date: 03/31/00