DSV Alvin

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
(508) 457-2000, x2579

DSV Alvin General Specifications §, Current Location and ALVIN User Manual from the Marine Operations Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

• Length: 23 feet, 4 inches
• Draft: 7 feet, 6 inches
• Height: 11 feet, 10 inches
• Beam: 8 feet, 6 inches
• Gross Weight: 37,400 pounds
• Operating Depth: 13,124 feet
• Hull: 82 inches OD
• Payload: 1,800 pounds
• Maximum Speed: 2 knots
• Cruising Speed: 1 knot
• Range: 6 miles
• Dive Duration: 6-10 hours
• Life Support: 216 man-hours
• Complement: 3 persons
• Propulsion: Five hydraulic thrusters: 3 forward-aft, 2 lift, 1 rudder
• Electrical: Lead-acid batteries, 36 KWH usable, 12/26 VDC, 110 VAC
• Manipulators: Two hydraulic manipulators mounted on forward end capable of lifting up to 250 pounds and reaching up to 75 inches

Other Equipment: Two 35mm film cameras, CCD video camera, SIT video camera, incandescent, sodium-scandium and thallium iodide viewing lights, computer/data display/recording system, altimeter, gyrocompass, navigation and tracking system, sonar, underwater telephone, sample basket, temperature probes, sediment corers, water samplers, sample nets, heat flow probes, CTD, magnetometer

More Information:

• Alvin information from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Deep Submergence Publications - Publications Referencing DSL and Jason/Medea, ARGO II, DSL 120
• Additional submersible and submarine links

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gene carl feldman (gene@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9428
Judith Gradwohl, Smithsonian Institution (Curator/Ocean Planet)