Boat IF

This boat is a 36ft research vessel named "Guiding Light", equipped with hydrographic survey equipment.

The facility enables hydrographic surveys to be undertaken up to 60 nautical miles offshore.

Name	Make/Model	Details
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler	Sontec ADCP	1000KHz ADCP capable of measuring current flow and direction up to depths of 50m.
Research Vessel	South Boats 36ft Research Vessel Catamaran	Category 2 workboat, LOA-11m, beam-5m, draft 1.2m, includes hydraulic A-Frame. Cruising speed 12knots.
Seabed Multi-Corer	Seabed Multi-Corer	Used for obtaining undisturbed sediment cores with a penetration depth of approximately 1m.
Shallow water side scan sonar system	Cmax CM2 towfish with Coda Octopus 760D	350KHz side scan system capable of working in water depths up to 100m.
Shallow water sub-bottom profiler system	Applied acoustics boomer system	10-15KHz towed catamaran system with CSP power source.
Single beam survey precision echo sounder	Odom hydrotrac echo sounder	200KHz single beam sonar, measures depth up to 150m.
Sub-bottom profiler	Geoacoustics Geochirp system	geochirp towfish including 100m armoured tow cable and Geoprinter.
Swath bathymetric survey system	SEA SWATHplus	234KHz Swath bathymetric survey system capable of mapping the seabed up to depths of 100m.

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