The rosette pictured above contains 12 reversing thermometer-equipped 
30-liter Niskin samplers. Samplers of this type will be used on every 
cast during the entire GEOSECS cruise. 
tronics engineer. The whole program will involve the collection of wa- 
ter from about 140 stations. Of these, about 70 will be made during 
the first Atlantic cruise. A schedule for this portion of the project 
is given in Table 3. Details of the Pacific cruise are now being for- 
mulated but have not been completed. 
The magnitude of the sampling program precludes storing al] 
of the larger sample bottles on board the ship at the outset. Even 
those that must be carried for a single leg would take up all of the a- 
vailable storage space below deck. Consequently, special pallets have 
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