Turner Designs C-ray Towed Deployment Body
Features
- Depth can be adjusted during sampling to achieve multiple depths
- Design helps insure the C-ray remains at depth
- Sturdy housing offers superior protection for the C3 fluorometer
- Free ground shipping
- Expedited repair and warranty service
- Lifetime technical support
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Turner Designs’ C3 Submersible Fluorometer can be used to quantify biological, chemical, or physical materials in aquatic systems using fluorescence detection. The C-ray Towed Deployment Body houses the C3 enabling it to be towed for shallow water (0-50 meters) research. Researchers can collect horizontal profiling data and combine those data with GPS data in order to map the fluorophore(s) of interest for an area of water.
When combined with mapping software, the C3 and C-ray can collect real-time water quality data at various depths and display the location-based data graphically.
- (1) C-ray Submersible Glider
- (2) Fluorometer Retaining Pins
- (3) Locking Pins
- (1) Shackle
- (1) Shackle Retaining Pin
- (1) Shackle Locking Nut
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