Serial closing apparatus for oceanographic measurements

Serial closing apparatus, invented by Scripps Institution of Oceanography staff. It is lowered closed, opened by messenger, towed horizontally, and closed by messenger. Special advantages are: (1) Clamped onto, not supported from, cable, permitting simultaneous operation of several at different depths. (2) Water sample and temperature obtained when nets close. (3) Two similar nets towed side by side, one acting as quantitative check against the other.

• between 1891 and 1965

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Charles Atwood Kofoid Photographs, 1891-1965

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• Charles Atwood Kofoid Papers

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