Ship Equipment

  • Deck
  • Navigational Systems
  • Communication Systems
  • Sci Instrumentation

Winches

Hydrographic

Markey DESH-5, electric with SCR control, 30,000' of 0.322" E-M cable

 

 

CTD

Markey DESH-5 30,000' of 0.322" E-M cable

 

 

Trawl/Coring

Markey DESH-9-11WF double drum electric mounted below deck, 30,000' of 9/16" 3 x 19 torque balanced wire and 30,000' of 0.680" EM cable. Closed circuit TV monitors in winch room.

 

Frames

A-Frame

On stern, 20 ton static load, 7 tons in motion, vertical clearance 25'; outreach 13', inboard 9', inside width 20' at base, 16' at top

 

 

Telescoping Boom

On starboard side on top of Staging Bay, 12 ton static load, 2 tons in motion. Vertical clearance 20', outreach 8' inboard 6'

 

Cranes

Heavy Lift

2 Alaska Marine cranes, Model MCS 1565 NO, 1 each on main deck aft starboard side and on 01 level port side; capacities: 42,000 lb @ 10' radius, 3,400 lb @ 65', 12,500 lb winch; boom crutches for 2 trawling positions

 

Work Boat

26' RIB with 130 HP O/B  also one diesel-powered rescue RIB

 

Navigational Systems

Dynamic Positioning

Kongsberg Simrad SDP with inputs from GPS.

 

Acoustic Positioning

NONE

 

GPS

2 Trimble P-Code, C-Nav GcGPS

 

ADF

Mackay 4005A, 190-2197 kHz

 

Speed Log

Ocean Data Equipment Corp. dual axis doppler with 3 repeaters

 

Depth Finders

Raytheon RD500

 

Gyro Compass System

Dual Sperry MK 37

 

Radars

Furuno models FAR-2825 3cm and FAR-2835S 10cm

 

Wind Sensors

2 Belfort Model 120 Aerovane transmitters with readouts in the chartroom, pilothouse, computer lab 1 Doppler with readouts on bridge and computer lab

 

Weather Facsimile

Furuno model FAX-207

 

 

Communication Systems

Single Side Band

SAILOR GMDSS

VHF-FM

SAILOR GMDSS

SATCOM

INMARSAT FLEET BROADBAND

Intra-ship Phones

 

Sound Powered

Hose-McCann

Dial

Hose-McCann PABX provides for offices, laboratories, work, and public spaces

 

Scientific Instrumentation and Equipment

Bathymetric and Seismic Systems

Profilers

BATHY2000 - 3.5 kHz sub-bottom system using 12 ODEC TR 109 transducers and 2 12 kHz bottom profilers using single ODEC TC-12/34 transducers

Transceivers

ODEC PDD-2000

Correlator

CESP IV

Digitizer

ODEC PDD 2000

SWATH Mapping Systems

Krupp-Atlas Hydrosweep DS Kongsberg-Simrad EM300

Seismic Air Compressors

2 LMF VHGD 4622 W15; 300 scfm capacity, 2,000 psi working pressure

 

CTD Systems

SeaBird SBE-911+

with Wetlabs Transmissometer (25cm), Seatech Flurometer, SeaBird SBE 32 Carousels (24 10L Niskin bottles 10 and 12 -30L), underwater cage, data acquisition & processing computers, and software

 

Navigation System

Thales WinFrog

Integrated navigation software and computer to display ship's waypoints and tracklines

 

Current Profiler

RD Instruments

Acoustic Doppler, Ocean Surveyor 75 kHz with data acquisition computer and RDI processing software