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| | Lamont's Office of Marine Operations |
 | | Just like her illustrious big sister, Lamont’s second ship, the Robert D. Conrad, a new research vessel built by the Navy and given to the Observatory to operate in 1962, embarked on ambitious, near-continuous research missions from the very start. |
 | | In addition to its manifold oceanographic, biological, geochemical, geological and geophysical work, the Conrad was notable in that she was equipped, starting in 1974, with tools for multichannel seismic (MCS) surveying. |
 | | Starting with four airguns and a 2,400-meter-long, 24-channel hydrophone array, the equipment was over time systematically upgraded and improved: by the time she was returned to the Navy, in 1989, the Conrad’'s MCS equipment consisted of ten airguns and a 4,000-meter-long, 160-channel hydrophone array. |
| www.ldeo.columbia.edu /res/fac/oma/history/conrad.html (280 words) |
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