Sea Technology Services recently accompanied the new South African polar ship, S.A. Agulhas II on her Scientific Equipment Deep Trials and successfully tested and commissioned various systems and equipment.
Sea-Bird Electronics SBE 911plus V2 CTD System
Sea-Bird Electronics SBE 45/38 Thermosalinograph System
Also tested and commissioned were the STS designed and built:
Scientific Data System (SDS)
A hardware and web browser based software solution for underway data collection, logging and displaying of ship navigational parameters and scientific instrumentation data.
SkiMonkey II
A high definition, benthic video and still photography system, rated to 700m, capable of realtime video streaming up 5000m of standard coppercored winch cable.
CTD Moonpool Carousel Frame (24 x 20 liter sample bottles)
A 6000m rated stainless steel carousel frame to carry 24 x 20 liter water sampling bottles, a Sea-Bird SBE 32 trigger unit and SBE 9plus V2 CTD.
An iRobot Seaglider was deployed off Agulhas II to test the capabilities of the ship as a glider deployment platform. The glider will continue to survey the shelfbreak off the Cape Peninsula for a month defore being retrieved off Hout Bay.
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