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Appendix B: NOAA Vessels
Pages 65-66

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... 10,300 13,800 6,000 2,200 Endurance (days) 28-31 31 23 9 Laboratory 2 facilities (ft ~ Chemistry 0-140 370 -- - Dry oceanography 105-1,800 -- 150 500 Wet oceanography 120-1S6 320 -- 40 Meteorology 0-180 -- -- - Gravity 60-180 -- -- - Photography 100-165 -- -- - CTD/XBT 0-282 160 -- - Fish processing -- 384 -- - Utility -- 288-432 -- - Medical facility Yes Yes No No Deck machinery Oceanographic winch 3 2 1 1 Deep sea 1 -- -- - Trawl -- 2 -- - Crawl/booms 2 5 2 2 A-frames 3 1 1 2 Total berthing 82-121 51 40 20 65
From page 66...
... 66 TABLE B-2 Measurement Systems and Equipment Required to Support NOAAVessel Requirements s Activity Class I Class II Class III Class IV Data acquisition/processing Hydrographic systems Tide observation systems Obstruction location equipment Precision navigation systems Bathymetric mapping system (multibeam) Water column sampling systems Underway current management systems Meteorological systems Bottom sediment samplers Subbottom profiling Gravity/magnetics Plankton sampling Trawling systems Dredging equipment Seining Long line Gill netting Pots/traps y y N N y y y y y y y y y N N N N N N y N N N y N y y y y N N y y N N N N N y N y y y N y y N N y N N N N N N y N N y N N y N y y N N y N N N N N N NOTE: Y -- yes; N -- no .


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