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(Jason Fazey) Hi everyone, we’re just going to begin the tour
with a quick look in the steering flat.
In here we’ve got the trawl winches.
There’s 8,000 metres of steel cable, hydraulic pressure unit,
and rotary steering, pump.
If we come out we’ve actually got the same equipment replicated
on the other side.
I’ll just peer through the window.
OK, we’re still on the platform level.
We’re actually down into the container hold now.
This fits four containers in here.
So, a seismic compressor for our seismic operations is also replicated
on the other side of the vessel.
Have a quick look at that.
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From the container hold, we’ll just walk straight into the winch room.
This is where we’ve got all the scientific winches.
We’ve got a towed body winch, 6,000m of fibre optic cable,
another winch called a heavy ocean towing system.
There’s 8,000m of multiple fibres, fibre optic cable.
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And on this side, we’ve got 8,000m of synthetic rope
which is used for our deep sea coring.
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OK, we’re on the main deck.
We’re just going to have a look at some of the labs.
This one is the General Purpose Dry Clean Lab.
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We have a couple of freezers,
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a laminar flow cabinet,
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some incubators.
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Still on the main deck, we’re just actually in the operations room.
This is where most of the operations happen, the scientific operations.
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This is the section where the
geophysical survey mapping is undertaken.
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Seismic station.
ADCP.
Tow body deployments,
and the electronics repair workshop.
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We’ll just have a quick look at the Underway Seawater Lab.
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I’m going to cross the hall to the General Purpose Wet Clean.
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We’re still on the main deck.
We’ve got some -80 freezers, hallway, main hallway, main passageway,
and we’ll just go into the Hydrochemistry Lab.
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This is where most of the hydrochemistry comes from, or is done.
The samples go through this door.
On the other side of this door is the CTD room,
where we deploy the CTD and I’ll show you that next.
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The CTD space with the sampler here.
When we operate it, the door on the, the door you can see there
at the other end is opened up.
This CTD is lifted up and extended onto this, from this boom,
and the CTD is lowered into the water to the desired depths
and water samples are taken.
Once it comes back on board, the sampling takes place here,
and I was just talking to you from the Hydrochem Lab,
and this is the other door for the Hydrochem Lab.
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The two winches for the CTD are up on this level,
both 6,000m electro cable.
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So, we’re on the main deck in the corridor,
probably the most utilised space on the ship
is the General Purpose Wet Lab.
That’s where all the samples of mud or fish, or anything,
it’s called the dirty, wet lab because dirty samples can come in here.
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A little bit busy at the moment, because we’re actually preparing
for a voyage to Antarctica.
We've got the sluice drains here, so if we are doing any sediment sampling,
we can get those washed away.
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Here’s some cool rooms.
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Goes down to -4 this cool room.
I won’t go in there at the moment.
We have a Preservation Lab in here as well.
Let’s see if I can open the door
without shaking the camera around too much.
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There’s some fume hoods and an area to take photographs,
some dangerous goods cabinets.
OK, we’re out here on the main deck.
There’s quite a bit of equipment here because we're just getting ready
for a voyage to Antarctica.
You can see down in the aft port quarter we’ve got a Dreggen crane.
We’ve got our A frame there with a 20 tonne limit,
and we’ve got a Triplex crane on the starboard quarter.
Turn around, and you can actually see where the container stack is.
There’s room there for four containers.
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Just up on top there on the Level 2 you can see the head drum.
There's another one on the outside
[10:25] rolled on there [10:31].
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Back on Level 2 now and we’re having a quick look at the galley.
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Have a look at the mess room.
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We’ll take a little walk across to this forward lounge area.
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We have the ship’s laundry here,
which is used by the scientists and the crew.
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So, I’m on Level 2 now and this is where we can store
another couple of containers.
It’s also the muster area,
the FRC,
the Emergency Generator House.
Just inside the Cathouse up on Level 2.
You can see the controls.
You can see how you can actually manage all the scientific winches
and you can see what’s going on, on the back deck from up here.
Now we’re just going into the Forecastle,
and the mooring area and the winches.
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This is in Level 5.
We’re going to go up to the Bridge Equipment Room.
This is just below the bridge level.
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These two large cabinets are for the weather radar,
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we’ve got a number of little racks there including the satellite,
TV, and a few others.
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Up on Level 6 now, the bridge.
We’re just going to have a little bit of a tour round.
The Communications Station.
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We’re currently in Fremantle Port.
The monthly function displays.
K-Chief and CCTV coverage.
Mooring station.
Down after the bridge, we actually go to a little station here,
it’s for fishing, and you can actually drive the ship from here, as well.
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We’re just up in the Level 7 Observation Deck area.
We’ve got on this side, you can see the VSAT,
search lights,
this is usually where we do the wildlife observations,
starboard side.
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