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Figure 34

Description

Figure 34. Brouardel corer invented by Jean Brouardel and Jean Vernet formeasuring dissolved oxygen in ocean water at the seafloor. This instrument wasdevised and constructed by Jean Comelli at the instrument shop of the Oceanographic Museum at Monaco. It was tested on the EIDER off Monaco in 1953, at depthsbetween 150 and 580 meters for the first model.

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