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Rock sample from the Gakkel Ridge collected using towed vehicle Camper.

Rock sample from the Gakkel Ridge collected using towed vehicle Camper.
Rock sample from the Gakkel Ridge collected using towed vehicle Camper.
Rock sample from the Gakkel Ridge collected using towed vehicle Camper.
Rock sample from the Gakkel Ridge collected using towed vehicle Camper.
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Linder, Christopher
Rock sample from the Gakkel Ridge collected using towed vehicle Camper.
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07/09/2007
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 46, No. 2, Pg. 23:
STEP 3: A deep-sea ‘Camper’ The third new under-ice vehicle, designed and built by WHOI engineers led by John Bailey, is called Camper (short for “camera/sampler”). 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, such as the deep-sea octopus (right), back to scientists aboard ship. They can send commands to the vehicle’s thrusters to maneuver and hover Camper briefly over vent sites and to operate its samplers: a “grabber” to snatch hard samples such as clams or rocks (shown here) and a “slurp gun” to vacuum in samples of fluids or microbes.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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