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Boats and Vehicles
23-ft Parker Customized Survey Vessel with Trailer
24-ft Self-Propelled Work Barge with 15 ft A-Frame and Trailer
Inflatable Boats and Jon Boats with Trailers
Outboard Motors
Trucks, Van, and 4-Wheel Drive Vehicles

Geophysical Survey and Positioning Equipment
Computerized Navigation and Data Acquisition System (NADAS)
Based on Coastal Oceanographic's HYPACK software, capable of interfacing with DGPS, GPS, Microwave, Optical Range/Azimuth, and Loran-C Positioning Systems as well as Fathometers, Side-scan Sonars, Subbottom Profilers, Magnetometers, and the IVMS.
Side-Scan Sonar - Dual Frequency: 100/500 kHz (Klein 595)
Xstar CHIRP Subbottom Profiling System (EG&G/PSI)
Digital Audio Tape (DAT) Data Recorders (Teac and Hewlett-Packard - 4mm)
Fathometers (Odom Echotrac, Raytheon, and Sitex)
Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) and DGPS Beacon Receivers
(Magnavox and Starlink)
Acoustic Release and Relocation Devices (Benthos)
Pingers and Pinger Receiver (Helle)
Terrestrial Surveying Equipment
Communication Equipment (Cellular Telephone and VHF Radio)

Underwater Video Camera and Still Camera Equipment
Integrated Video Mapping System (IVMS)
DeepSea Power & Light Micro-SeaCam 2000 Super VHS Color Underwater Video camera
Osprey Underwater Standard VHS Color Underwater Video cameras
Birns High Power Light Systems
Remote Ocean Systems Low Power Light Systems
Hydroproducts RP-5 Pan and Tilt
1,800 ft multiconductor system cable for deep towing
Various other Cables, Monitors, and Video Cassette Recorders
Benthos Model 372 35-mm Deep Sea Camera System with CSA Remote Camera Trigger
Benthos Model 386 Flash Assembly
Benthos Model 393 Battery Pack
Benthos Model 380-34 Data Logging System
Deep Sea Towing Systems for Video/Photography Systems
Small Vessel Towing Systems for Video Systems
Diver-Held Hi Band 8-mm Underwater Video Systems
Diver-Held Nikonos Still Camera and Strobe Systems with Various Lenses
Diver-Held Underwater Movie Cameras

Sampling Equipment
Portable Vibracoring System
Gravity Corers and Stainless Steel Box Core
Bottom Grabs (Smith-McIntyre, Van-Veen, Peterson, Ponar)
Sediment Traps and Moorings
Current Drogues
Water Samplers (Niskin, Van Dorn, and Kemmerer)
Dredges (Biological, Triangular, Pipe, and Rock)
Fish Traps
Marinovich 6-m Beam Trawl
Otter Trawls and Sampling Nets
Plankton Sampling Equipment
Winches (Hydrographic, Instrumentation, and Air Tugger)
Portable "A" Frame, Hero Platform, and Davits

Physical Oceanography Instrumentation
InterOceans SSM S-4 Recording Current Meters with Temperature, Conductivity, and Pressure
InterOceans SSM S-4 Recording Current Meters with Temperature
Profiling Cable and Interface Box for Reading S-4's with a PC in Realtime
Endeco Recording Current Meters
Current Meter Moorings and Stands
Marsh McBirney Electromagnetic Flowmeters
General Oceanics Digital Flowmeters
Coastal Climate Weatherpack Meteorological Data Logger
Meteorological Sensors for:
Wind Speed, Wind Direction, Barometric Pressure, Air Temperature, and Water Temperature
Buoy Tech Solar-powered Meteorological Buoy with Elastic Tether Mooring
ARGOS Transmitter for Tracking Meteorological Buoys
Coastal Leasing Microtide Solid State Memory Recording Pressure Gauges

Water Quality Instrumentation
Hydrolab Surveyor Solid State Memory Water Quality Systems
Seabird Solid State Memory CTD Recording Water Quality Systems
Profiling Cable for Reading Seabird with a PC in Realtime
Beckman Model RS5-3 Conductivity and Temperature Meter
YSI Dissolved Oxygen Meters
Hach Model 18900 and 2100 Ratio Turbidimeters
Seatech 25-cm Transmissometers with Topside Readout or Logger Output
D&A Optical Back Scatter (OBS) Sensors
Coastal Leasing Microlite Data Loggers for Serial Sensor Output Recording
Licor Photometers
Recording Thermographs

Diving Equipment
Surface Supplied Air and Scuba Gear
Diver to Surface Radio Communication Systems
Diving Air Compressors (LP and HP)
Burning, Welding, and Jetting Tools
Diesel-Powered Welder
Concrete Corer
Diver Propulsion Vehicles
Underwater Hull Scrubbers
Diver-Held Magnetometer
Portable Generators and Pumps

Data and Report Processing Equipment
Microsoft NT Server 4.0 Local Area Network
Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 for e-mail with Outlook
Paired (PDC/BDC) RAID-1 File Servers
Networked ISDN Internet Connection
Network Associates Total Virus Defense System
Networked Laser and Inkjet Printers
Pentium III, II, and I Desktop Workstations with Local Hard Drives
Numerous Portable Computers with Network Docking Stations
Surge Protectors and Uninterrupted Power Supplies on all Workstations
Automated Daily Full Network Data Tape Backup
12X CDR Burners for Data Delivery and Archiving
640 Megabyte Magneto Optical Rewritable Drives for Temporary Storage
100 Megabyte Zip Drives for Data Transfer
Hewlett-Packard E-size Digital Color Plotter
Hewlett-Packard 747J 11 x 17 in. Plotter for in-field use
Kurta IS/Three Large Format Digitizer
Houston Instruments 12 x 18 in. Digitizer for in-field use
56K Modems (Portables and Branch Offices)
Full Page Color Scanners
Telefax machines (Home and Branch Offices)
Copiers, Collators, and Binding Machines

Software: Microsoft Office 97 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, & Access), Corel 8 Office Suite (WordPerfect, QuattroPro, & Paradox), ArcView GIS with various processing modules, Mapinfo GIS, ProCite and Papyrus Bibliographic Software, AutoCAD Release 14, Hypack Navigation and Field Data Collection Software, Visio 2000, Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Corel Draw, Sigma Plot, Isomate Contouring Package, Surfer, S4 Current Meter Software, Seasoft Seabird Software, and a full complement of utilities.

Leased Equipment Used on CSA International Projects

Navigation and Positioning Equipment
Trimble DGPS Receivers with Modems
Magnavox DGPS Receivers with Modems
Racal Microfix Type 90600 Positioning System
Lasertrak L5000 Range-Azimuth Positioning System
Del Norte 540 Trisponder System
Racal AutoCarta Navigational Control System
Motorola Mini-Ranger MRS-3 Positioning System
Ferranti-ORE Trackpoint 2 Positioning System
Honeywell Hydrostar Ultrashort Baseline Acoustic Positioning System

Geophysical Survey Equipment
EG&G Geometrics Model 866 Magnetometer
EG&G Geometrics Model 856 Base Magnetometer
EG&G Model 260 Image Correcting Side-Scan Sonar
Ferranti-ORE Model 160 Side-Scan Sonar
EG&G Model 230 Uniboom Subbottom Profiler
Ferranti-ORE Geopulse Subbottom Profiler
Klein 3.5 kHz Subbottom Profiler
Ferranti-ORE 3.5 kHz Subbottom Profiler
Raytheon RT1000 Subbottom Profiler
Barringer Marine Magnetometer
Innerspace Model 448 Fathometer
Ross Labs Model 5600 Fathometer

Physical Oceanoraphy Instrumentation
Sea Data Model 621 & 635 Directional Wave & Tide Recorders
Endeco Type 1156 Wave-Track Buoy System
Endeco Type 174 Solid State Current Meters
Endeco Type 1152 Solid State Water Level Recorder
Endeco Type 110 Current Meters
Coastal Leasing Directional Wave Gauges
Coastal Leasing X,Y Solid State Current Meters
Coastal Leasing Solid State Three-axis Accelerometers
Coastal Leasing Solid State Differential Pressure Gauges
Leupould-Stevens Water Level Recorders

Water Quality Instrumentation
Interoceans Model STD-12 Solid State Profiling CTD
Applied Microsystems Solid State CTD
Martek Mark 5 Water Quality Data Loggers
Sippican XBT and XSV Expendable Profilers
Seatech 10cm Transmissometers
Turner Model 10 Fluorometers

Other Major Instrumentation and Equipment
Phantom 300 & 500 ROV Systems
Benthos Mini-Rover ROV
Perry Oceanographics Sprint ROV
Mesotech Model 971 Color Imaging Sonar System
Aanderaa Weather Station
Weathertronics Weather Station
Alpine Full-size (40 ft) Pneumatic Vibracorer
Electro-Hydraulic Winches