SEA-MES VR

Demersal trawl

A standardised sample trawl that replicates the time and gear used on the RV Southern Surveyor in the 1990s survey of Bax & Williams (2001) brings the catch onto the back deck of RV Investigator which is then sorted in the Sheltered Science Area.

The catch is sorted in the Sheltered Science Area and then moved into the Dirty Wet Lab for measuring and biological sampling.

The Multi-net / Mammoth net / Hydro-bios

SEA-MES collects samples of the water column biota by using gear that confusingly has 3 names: the Mammoth Net, the Hydro-bios net or the Multi-net. This gear consists of multiple nets that open at different depths to collect depth stratified samples.

The CTD

SEA-MES collects water samples in a rosette of (Niskin) bottles using a CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) instrument for physical and biological oceanographic data, including collection of eDNA samples, at interval depths.

360 VR video is being reviewed

SEA-MES VR 360 videos can be viewed by clicking and dragging the cursor across the image and zooming in and out using the scroll wheel.