Equipment for Loan
The Mooring Lab maintains an extensive inventory of mooring components and equipment available for loan to the scientific community. The fees associated with the loans are generally labor to prepare the equipment and, upon return of the equipment, maintenance and restoration to its original condition. Any loaned items that are damaged or not returned are replaced at the expense of the borrower. Due to the high loan demand, it is advisable to make loan requests as far in advance as possible to avoid scheduling conflicts.
The resources available for loan include:
- Electric hydraulic TSE winches Quantity: 4
- Double-barrel capstan Lebus winch Quantity: 1
- Tensioning carts Quantity: 8
- Winding carts Quantity: 8
Air Tuggers with or without Pedestals
Handling Gear as follows:
(see downloadable file on this web page to request Handling Gear)
Launch and Recovery Deck Gear, such as:
- Pick-up poles
- Deck lines
- Hooks
- Throwing grapnels
- Cleats
- Chain and wire cutters
- Slings
Deck Lashing Supplies, such as:
- Chain binders
- Lashing chain
- Eyebolts
- Turnbuckles
- Assorted hardware
Aircraft strap boxes
Dragging equipment, such as grapnels, depressor weights and sacrificial wire shot
Wire baskets
Buoyancy
- 17” diameter glass spheres in hardhats (nominal 50 lb. buoyancy per sphere)
- Steel spheres (28”, 30”, 41” and 48” in diameter)
- 60-64” diameter syntactic foam spheres with 2000-3000 lb. buoyancy
- Surlyn-foam buoys
- Guard buoys
Requests for equipment and gear loans should be directed to Chris Ross cross@whoi.edu or phone: 508-289-3927
