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Title: Lowering the Small Boat
Author: Mitchell Elend
Category: Other
Data Source: VISIONS05
File Size: 93 kb
File Type: Image (JPG or GIF)
Date Catalogued:
Friday, September 2, 2005
The ship’s small boat is lowered to transfer people and gear between R/V Atlantis and R/V Thompson. The “gravity davits” used to lower the boat are designed to operate even if the ship loses electrical power or is heeled over due to instability.