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TECHNICAL SHEET AND EQUIPMENT
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Side view

Top view - Upper deck

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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