Giant box corer (spade corer); used on research vessels to take undisturbed surface samples (50 x 50 cm, 50 cm deep) from ocean floor sediments. Developed by USNEL (United States Navy Electronics Laboratory) during the nineteen seventies. This image shows the deployment of the corer from the research vessel POLARSTERN in the Southern Ocean off the shelf ice edge.
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