Bottom sampling
For sampling of deep-sea and shallow sediments NMF maintains a diverse selection of corers, grabs and dredges. Commonly used samplers are mono-, box-, multi-, piston- or gravity-corer; furthermore, special samplers such as vibro-corer, van Veen grabs or dredges can also be made available.
Boxcorer
A box corer takes a large sample of the top 40cm of the sea floor, for subsampling or sieving on board. Boxes on the corer can be of different shapes and sizes, round (30cm or 50cm diameter) or rectangular. The 50cm box corer is also available with on-line video option, allowing the scientists to select the sampling site visually.
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Multi corer
The multi corer allows simultaneous sampling of 8 or 12 tubes of approximately 25cm long sections of the top layer of the sediment, including the overlying bottom water. Because the samples from the multi corer are undisturbed they can be used for process studies.
