EQUIPMENT BASE
AQUAFACT has at its disposal the following equipment:
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6.8m Rigid Inflatable Boat
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Mark II Zodiac inflatable boat
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Renault Trafic van
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Land Rover Discovery
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Mitsubishi Pajero 4 × 4
- 10/12 megapixel DSLR SPI camera
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10/12 megapixel DSLR surface camera
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12 megapixel handheld diver SPI camera
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Canon EOS 350D SLRs × 2
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Canon EOS 450D SLRs × 4
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Nikkor & Canon lenses
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Nikon D200 dSLR camera & underwater housing
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Nikon D70 dSLR camera
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2 × Nikonos V amphibious cameras & lenses/strobes
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Fujifilm Finepix F30 digital camera in underwater housing
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Nikon F100 SLR camera
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Nikon F5 SLR camera
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Binoculars & spotting scopes
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Bat detector
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Misc accessories: lenses/flashes/diffusers/tripods etc.
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Van Veen Grab × 2
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Day Grab
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Rallier-di-Baty Dredge
- Beam Trawl
- Underwater diver propulsion vehicle
- Sony Video digital camcorder & Amphibico housing (+ lights)
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Diving compressor
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Diving cylinders × 7
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Diving equipment (5 full sets SCUBA gear)
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AGA full face masks × 2
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Diver Communication System
- SonarLite Portable Echo Sounder
- Trimble NT300D DGPS
- Trimble GeoTX Handheld GPS
- Magellan Mobile Mapper CX
- Minitracka II Flourimeter
- Braystoke Current Meter
- 3 x Nortek Acoustic Wave And Current (AWAC) Profilers
- Turbidity Meter
- Conductivity Temperature Depth Meter
- Temperature/Salinity Meter
- Luton LX-101 Lux Meter
- Depth Sounder
- Oximeter
- Nephelometer
- Windsonic
- Compressor
- Wentworth Granulometry Sieves
- Sieve Shaker
- 2mm, 1mm and 0.5mm Faunal Sieves
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Sieve Table
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Panasonic toughbook
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GETAC B300 rugged notebook
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Office space - computer workstations × 13
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Laboratory space - workstations × 7
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Binocular microscopes × 5
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Compound microscopes × 4