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John Kemp assisting in the Camper deployment.

John Kemp assisting in the Camper deployment.
John Kemp assisting in the Camper deployment.
John Kemp assisting in the Camper deployment.
John Kemp assisting in the Camper deployment.
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Linder, Christopher
John Kemp assisting in the Camper deployment.
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09/11/2007
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Camper has a few pounds on WHOI engineer John Kemp. Whenever equipment goes over the side or back on deck, Kemp takes charge to ensure that operations run smoothly and safely. Kemp has been going to sea for nearly three decades.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 46, No. 2, Pg. 23:
The third new under-ice vehicle, designed and built by WHOI engineers led by John Bailey, is called Camper (short for "camera/sampler"). Above, WHOI engineer John Kemp guides Camper into an ice-free pool created by the icebreaker Oden. The 6,200-pound steel-frame box––5 feet wide, 7 feet long, and 5.5 feet tall––is towed behind the icebreaker, which drifts with the ice pack. Camper is lowered to the seafloor via a winch and a fiber-optic cable. It is equipped with camera and light systems to send realtime images back to scientists aboard ship.
07 Annual Report caption:
WHOI engineer John Kemp, head of deck operations during the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition, supervises the deployment of the Camper towed sampling vehicle off the fantail of the Swedish icebreaker Oden. The vehicle was mobilized to find the autonomous underwater vehicle Jaguar, which was somewhere under the ice on a testing dive.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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