The tables feed off the back-deck seawater supply, limiting other uses of that water. There is a tabletop that can be put on one of the tables to provide a work table. There are four files to a CTD cast. The file name includes the cast number, and the extension indicates what type file it is. RAW is used for the file with the binary raw data from the CTD deck unit.
BOT is the bottle data file.
Every time a rosette sample is taken, a line of CTD data is recorded to this file. The SAIL data is divided into one-hour files with the file name composed of year, month, day, and hour. The column titles are included at the top of each file. The ADCP data is stored in sequential files created and named by RDI's Transect program. The technicians can handle most of the shipping arrangements for scientific equipment needed on a cruise.