Gallery of EP/CC-Yoyo Deployment
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Fig. 1: The control unit ready for deployment.
The quadruple helix contains the 400 weight spheres.
In the foreground the weight-ball guide-pipe with the retardation cascade can be seen.
Fig. 2: Completely mounted vehicle.
In the foreground you can see the CTD (Sea-Bird-Electronics SBE19+), in the background the bouyancy-module. At the rear end the basket carrying the weight sphere is visible and on top the rod to release the weight when the ocen bottom is reached.
Fig. 3: Weight sphere collector basket, net and the spring-loaded stop plate.
Fig. 4: Mooring ground weight and pair of releasers.
Fig. 5: Ground weight, pair of releasers and weight sphere collector unit below the ship's A-frame.
Fig. 6: Ground weight on it's way into the ocean.
Fig. 7: Weight sphere collector unit and impact plate following the ground weight.
Fig. 8: The 'treasure chest': Energy for 400 times of 4000 m profiling.
Fig. 9: The control unit ready for deployment. The weight-sphere guide-pipe is going to be fixed to the rope.
Fig. 10: The vehicle is fixed at the rope and weight loaded, ready for the first launch.
Fig. 11: The control unit during shackling into the mooring.
In the foreground two buoyancy spheres.
Fig. 12: Gesamtansicht des Vehikels.
Fig. 13: The complete vehicle.
