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| The slurp gun is used for collecting small biological samples |
Thursday, 30 August 2012
Day 9 - Slurp gun!
Another dive for Isis today with some more push cores collected for our science
team. The vehicle descended to 1400m and the ROV team refreshed their skills in
using the ‘slurp gun’ – essentially a hose attached to Isis that is a bit like a vacuum cleaner, only it sucks up small
samples from the sea bed. Once
collected, the engineer deposits the sample in a storage box on the tray of the
ROV.
