The nets pictured below offer a variety of ways to sample the water column. In addition to these large towing nets, the ship has two other smaller nets (which can be hand-deployed or towed) listed below.

• Phytoplankton net, mesh size: 330 milli-micron
• Zooplankton net, mesh size: 500 milli-micron

Beam Trawl

Epi-benthic, Invertebrate sampling mesh size: 1"

Tucker Trawl

Mid-water organism sampling net mesh size: 1/4"

Otter Trawl

Bottom fish sampling mesh size: 3/4"