Average speed: 119.8 cm/sec to 279 deg. (about 2.3 knots)
Result: 4.9 meters
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Bristol Community College, Marine Technology and Marine Biology
April 23, 2010
Vessel: Patriot Too
Instructor: Bob Rak
Weather Sunny, North wind, 10 knots
Trip 1 Depart 0900 from Woods Hole
1st Deployment 0922-0931, Site 1, Benthic Dredge
Purple urchins (arbacia), sea stars (asterias), hermit crabs
(pagurus), mud crab, female spider crabs (Libinia)
2nd Deployment 0942-0947 Site 1, Plankton Tow
3rd Deployment 0953-1003 Site 1,Otter Trawl male spider crab,
codium, shrimp
4th Deployment 1020 Secchi Disk, Site 2, 6.0 meters
Return 1026
Trip 2 Depart 1035
1st Deployment 1058-1112, Site 1, Otter trawl
2nd Deployment 1115-1125, Site 1, Otter Trawl
3rd Deployment 1130-1136 Site 1, Benthic Dredge
Spider crabs, hermit crabs, sea urchins, seastars, quahog
4th Deployment 1142-1150 Plankton Tow
Return 1200