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Figure 8

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Description

Figure 8. Skead sounder invented by Francis Skead during telegraph surveyoperations between Malta and Crete off HMS TARTARUS in 1857. This device wasdesigned to mitigate problems with the Brooke and Bonnici sounders. The firstwould sink in soft sediment without detaching the weight while the second rarely returned samples.

Credit

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

Photographer

Y. Berard

Collection

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

Keywords

Oceanography
Historical instruments