A vehicle that can take instrumentation into the ocean while being towed by a surface craft has been built. The vehicle body is a flooded, 8-foot-long cylinder stabilized at the tail and depressed by a short wing. Most of the structural loads are borne by four full-length radius plates. These plates divide the cylindrical body lengthwise into four wet compartments that have quadrant cross sections. Each quadrant can hold instrument payloads as large as 5-1/2-in. in diameter. Each quadrant can be uncovered independently to service the payload. These features are improvements over previous designs for carrying an assortment of payloads. Construction cost was only $3200. Design criteria, details of the construction, and results of an initial tow test of the towed body are presented.


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    Title :

    Towed Instrument Vehicle for Deep Ocean Sampling


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1985


    Size :

    50 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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