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TECHNICAL SHEET AND EQUIPMENT

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Top view - Lower deck




1. External information

Ship:Lampsilis
Ship owner:Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Ship operator:REFORMAR, Rimouski (Québec)
Ship builder:Chantier Naval de Matane, Inc., Matane, Qc.
Year built:2004
Type:Special – Research
Port of registry:Trois-Rivières
Official number:827380
Overall length:24,00m
Length between perpendiculars: 23,15m
Maximum breadth: 6,8 m
Moulded breadth: 6,7 m
Moulded depth at the ship’s centre: 2,4 m
Draft (normal operation): 0,9 m
Freeboard at summer draft: 1,22 m
Gross tonnage: 114
Net tonnage: 29


Accommodation capacity:
Minor waters voyage, Class II: 21 personnes + 4 crew members
Minor waters voyage, Class I, and Inland waters voyage, Class II: 8 personnes + 4 crew members


2. Storage capacity

Drinking water: 1000 L
Fuel tank: 2 x 1800L
Sanitary system: 1000 L


3. Safety equipment

Mustang immersion suits, one-size, (16 adults)
Two life rafts accommodating 25 persons each
One service boat with 20hp outboard engine
Two radio beacons


4. Fire-fighting equipment

Hose nozzle for extinguishing with water
CO2 system - Engine room
Extinguishers, type A, B, C


5. Certification

Canadian Coast Guard; annual



6. Equipment in the wheelhouse

Radar: Raymarine C120
Electronic chart: Raychart C120
Echo sounder: Raymarine DS 600x
Magnetic compass: Ritchie
Automatic pilot: Simrad
GPS: JRC J-NAV 500
Whistle: Oui
Radio: Icom IC-M601
Signal light: 2
Alarm system: fire and bilge (hulls)



7. Engine room

Propulsion: Autopropulsion
Propulsion method: Hydro Jet
Propulsion motor: CUMMINS QSM11
Propulsion system: ALPHA POWER JET 420
Total power: 900 HP
Generating sets: 2X 35 kw (Perkins)
Steering gear (2): Main and auxiliary systems
Bilge pump: Yes
Fire hose pump: Yes
Back-up fire hose pump: Yes



8. Deck and laboratory equipment

*One should note that we cannot guaranty the availability of a piece of equipment at the time of a mission.

Rear deck area: 44,8 m2
Crane: Heila, 1 tonne
Winch:2 Titan TH1 Rotzler, 200 kg
1 Titan TH1 Rotzler, 1000 kg
1 Hauler, 12" diameter
Trawl winches: 1,13 tonnes, 50 RPM; 45 m of cable 5/16"
Wet laboratory: 17,1 m2
Dry laboratory: 10,4 m2
Refrigerator / Freezer: 23,0 pi.3
Freezer -80 ºC: 3,6 pi.3
Informatics:Portable computer (2)
External disk drive
Printer
External hard disk
Water, periphyton, zooplankton and benthic samplers:GO-FLO 2,5L bottle (2)
GO-FLO 8L bottle (2)
Biological dredge (2)
Ekman grab (2)
Ponar grab
Corers
Doppler current meter
Hyperspectroradiometer system:Includes radiance and irradiance sensors (surface and subsurface), C-star transmissometer, and fluorometer (CDOM, Chl a, phycoerythrine).
Reflectance measurement system:Microsas, including a radiometer.
YSI multisensor:O2 sensor
pH / ORP sensor
Turbidity sensor
Conductivity sensor
Fluorometer system:Turner Designs field fluorometer:
25-mm continuous-flow sample system
Incubators:Incubator (3)
Spectrophotometer:Field spectrophotometer
Preservation:Liquid nitrogen container, 50 L
2 L liquid nitrogen flasks (2)
Cart (liquid nitrogen container)
Analytical instruments:pH meter
Balance
Centrifuge
Centrifuge rotor, 8 x 50 mL
Centrifuge rotor, 4 x 250 mL
Filtration system (3)
25 mm filtration set-up (12)
47 mm filtration set-up (6)
Vacuum pump (3)
Automatic pipette, 0.5–10 µL (2)
Automatic pipette, 10–100 µL (2)
Automatic pipette, 100–1000 µL (2)
Automatic pipette, 2–20 µL (2)
Pipette holder (2)
Trawls:Pelagic trawl
Bottom trawl
Cable winch
Net drum
Microscopes
Plankton separation
Zooplancton nets:Net #1, 153 µm
Net #2, 243 µm
Net #3, 500 µm
Replacement net, 153 µm
Replacement net, 243 µm
Replacement net, 500 µm
Flow meter for net (2)

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