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) Power supply
3) Delph Elics seismic acquisition system
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 acquistion display
4) Delph 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 tow vehicle
2) Dynacon winch
3) Starboard aft side showing cable (upper right). Sidemount (lower left) for echosounder and acoustic ranging to the SIS-1000 sidescan-sonar tow vehicle
4) Triton ISIS data acquisition system
5) ISIS display


Navigation and Bathymetry System

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4) capnsm.jpg (5196 bytes)     5) sidemnts.jpg (7785 bytes)    6) furdissm.jpg (5270 bytes)

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 echosounder display


Data Processing

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1) Digital Alpha 255 workstation (Digital Unix) for sidescan-sonar processing
2) Digital Alpha workstations (Red Hat Linux) for seismic processing with Seismic Unix (center)
3) Notebook computers for CD-ROM data archival
4) HP 755 CM plotter


Cruise Participants

schwabs.jpg (8888 bytes)  Bill Schwab                       bwdsm.jpg (4955 bytes)  Bill Danforth  tfo_sm.jpg (6134 bytes) Tom O'Brien            twigsm.jpg (5345 bytes)  Dave Nichols              janesm.jpg (5206 bytes) Jane Denny              barrysm.jpg (5364 bytes) Barry Irwin                    davefsm.jpg (4779 bytes)   Dave Foster


The CDR Mastering System

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A Toshiba Satellite 320CDT Pentium notebook computer with 4 GB HD, 96 MB RAM, 20X CD, Xircom ethernet adapter, Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA adapter controlling two external Micropolis SCSI hard drives (4 GB), and a Yamaha CRW4260tx.  The computer runs on the Windows 95 OS. The CD-ROMs were created using Adaptec Easy CD Creator version 3.01a.


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