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.
Equipment
Name | Make/Model | Details |
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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. |
Get in touch
Mr Ian Fryett
- fryetti@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2086 7130
Location
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Main Building
Park Place
CF10 3AT