Author :
Wilber, R. Jude ; Lea, CharlesE ; Humphris, S.E.
Author_Institution :
Sea Educ. Association, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. With the launching of the SSV Corwith Cramer, the Sea Education Association of Woods Hole, Mass. now operates two sailing vessels which serve as research platforms for sea semesters. The Cramer, which is the first vessel built to meet US Coast Guard regulations for sailing school vessels, is modeled closely after the schooner Westward. A variety of design modifications and equipment changes greatly improve her performance as a research vessel. Cramer´s greater length (135 feet) and beam (26 feet) serve to increase speed, stability and working deck area. The vessel´s onboard research equipment consists of standard oceanographic sampling gear such as plankton nets, trawls, cores, dredges and Nisken bottles. In addition, the Cramer carries a variety of modern sampling and analytic gear including a 3 and 12-kHz PDR, digital recording BT (bathythermograph) and CTD (conductivity, temperature, and density) measurement, salinometer, fluorometer, spectrophotometer, and four microcomputers for data recovery, processing, and storage
Keywords :
education; ships; 12 kHz; 135 feet; 26 feet; 3 kHz; Nisken bottles; PDR; SSV Corwith Cramer; Sea Education Association; US Coast Guard; Westward; Woods Hole; bathythermograph; conductivity; cores; data recovery; density; digital recording BT; dredges; fluorometer; microcomputers; oceanographic sampling gear; plankton nets; processing; research platforms; sailing research vessel; salinometer; school vessels; schooner; sea semesters; spectrophotometer; speed; stability; storage; temperature; trawls; working deck area; Conductivity; Digital recording; Educational institutions; Gears; Marine vegetation; Ocean temperature; Oceanographic techniques; Sampling methods; Stability; Temperature measurement;
