A Neuston Net being lowered from the port side of the forecastle deck on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea.
A Neuston Net being lowered from the port side of the forecastle deck on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery (1962) while at sea. This small net was hung in a wooden frame on skis and skimmed over the surface of the sea, collecting organisms from the top two or three centimetres of the water. The photographer is looking forward. This is Slide 45 of Captain Henry P. Bird's lecture titled "Deep Oceans", about his service as Third Officer on board the Discovery from 15 December 1971 to 16 April 1972. The ship was on a Marine Biological Cruise to the seas off Cape Bogador in Spanish Sahara, off the southern tip of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, around the Cape Verde Islands and along the West African Shelf off Nouakchott in Mauretania. She sailed from Barry on 4 February and returned on 16 April 1972. The lecture consists of 78 slides.
Object Details
| ID: | PCT15832 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bird, Henry P. |
| Vessels: | Discovery (1962) |
| Date made: | February - April 1972 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection |
| Measurements: | Image: 28 mm x 28 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm |
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