These pages have been prepared from the BODC OMEX I Data Event table (see Explanatory Notes). This page contains a summary of the data events logged to date and also serves as the code table for the type of gear. For a listing of the Data Events logged against a specific gear type, select the relevant Gear Code. If you want a full listing of the Data Events, irrespective of gear type, then select this Full Listing in comma separated value format.

Count

Gear Code

Description

5312

ADCP

Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

19

AIRFILT

Bulk filtered air sample

663

AIRPUMP

Atmospheric air sampling pump

4

ALACE

Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer Float

36

APNET

Apstein opening-closing mesh zooplankton net

63

BL

Bottom Lander

114

BOTTLE

Water bottle hydrocast

237

BOXCORE

Box core

59

BUCKET

Surface water sample collected by a bucket on a rope

4

BUOY

Drifting Buoy

2

CAMERA

Underwater camera system

1706

CPR

Continuous Plankton Recorder tow segment

698

CPUMP

All plastic clean surface pumped supply

1747

CTD

CTD frame plus rosette sampler

10

ES

Epibenthic Sledge

184

FPUMP

Flygt pump

76

GPCENT

Continuous centrifuging of non-toxic supply

2797

GPUMP

Sample taken from ship's non-toxic supply

16

ISPROD

In situ productivity incubations

5

KASCORE

Kasten corer

22

LADCP

Lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

27

LHPR

Longhurst-Hardy Plankton Recorder

30

MOOR

Instrument mooring

29

MSC

Marine snow catcher

64

MULCORE

Multicorer

8

N113

1 metre sq. Indian Ocean standard net

5

N50V

N50v plankton net

13

PISCORE

Piston corer

28

PR

Profiling radiometer

4

RAFOS

Seascan RAFOS Float

3

RAIN

Rain water collector

12

RCORE

Reineck corer

77

RMT

RMT multiple zooplankton net tow

60

SAP

Stand-alone pumps

10

SEDFLO

Drifting rig with Parflux sediment traps.

4

SEIS35

3.5 kHz seismic survey.

2

SHIPEK

Shipek grab

218

SSP

SeaSoar profile from gridded data

7

SST

SeaSoar tow

6

UORT

Undulating Oceanographic Recorder Tow

4

VUOR

UOR employed in vertical profiling mode.

19

WP-2

WP-2 zooplankton nets

371

XBT

Expendable Bathythermograph

71

ZNET

Unspecified zooplankton net or nets

14

ZODIAK

Manual water sample taken using Z-boat away from mother ship