Sediment trap mooring

Credit: Eric Tappa, University of South Carolina

This image shows nearly all the equipment that comprises a typical sediment trap mooring.  Syntactic buoys (yellow balls on left and ready for deployment), railroad wheel anchors (at stern), two sediment traps (yellow cylinders on right), mooring wire already spooled on winch.  Missing from the photo are the acoustic releases, which can be seen in an earlier post.