PICTURES FROM THE ALPHA & OMEGA II 98013 CRUISE

Alpha and Omega II

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1) Alpha & Omega II at Woods Hole dock.
2) Alpha & Omega II docked at Wods Hole with RV Asterias on the left

Sparker Subbottom Profiling System

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1) Sparker
2) Geoulse power supply
3) Deplh Elics seismic acquisition computer
4) Oyo thermal printer

15 cu. in. water gun system

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1) 15 cu. in. water gun and float
2) Air compressor
3) Mudseis NT seismic acquisition display
4) Deplh Elics seismic acquisition computer
5) EPC Thermal printer
6) 15 cu. in.water gun

Chirp Subbottom Profiling System

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1) Datasonics SIS-1000 sidescan sonar and chirp subbottom fish
2) Dynacon winch
3) Starboard aft side showing sidescan cable (uper right). Sidemount (lower left) for echosounder
and acoustic ranging to the SIS-1000 sidescan fish
4)  Triton ISIS data acquistion system
5) ISIS display

Navigation and Bathymetry System

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1) Ashtech GPS and differential receivers (right) and Benthos ranging unit (left)
2) USGS navigation computer for navigation logging and display
3) Hypack navigation display
4) The Cap'n navigation and charting display
5) Sidemount for Benthos ranging transducer and Furuno echosounder
6) Furuno echsounder display

Data Processing

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1) Digital Alpha workstation (Digital Unix) for sidescan sonar processing
2) Digital Alpha workstation (Red Hat Linux) for seismic processing with Seismic Unix (center)
3) Notebook computers for CD-ROM data archival
4) HP 755CM plotter

Other pictures

Cruise Participants

Bill Schwab Bill Danforth     Tom O'Brien

Dave Nichols     Jane Denny

Barry Irwin      Dave Foster

The CDR Mastering System

• A Dell Latitude LM 166MMX Pentium notebook computer with 4.1 GB HD, 48 MB RAM, 10X CD, Xircom ethernet adapter, Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA adapter controlling the external SCSI hard drive (4 GB), and a Yamaha CDR CDRW 4260tx. The computer runs on the Windows 95 OS. The CD-ROMs were created using Adaptec Easy CD PRO version 2.1.10.

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