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Figure 30

Description

Figure 30. Closing device of the Apstein closing net. Left: open. Right:closed. Devised by Carl Apstein in 1903 and used in the North Sea. This wasused for quantitative plankton studies and was first used in the North Sea in1903.

Credit

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Photographer

Y. Berard

Category

Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
The Early Instruments - Collections of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco
Biologic Sampling Apparatus

Keywords

Oceanography
Historical instruments