Luigi Sanzo: A fifteen meters fully equipped boat for coastal monitoring.

Funded in the frame of the PI-CNR project (Cluster 10 MIUR), a coastal monitoring boat was designed and built to be used by the Ist. Talassografico of Messina (now CNR-IAMC). Launched in 2002, the boat is named after the first director of the Istitute, Prof. Luigi Sanzo, a world-wide known ichthyologist. The boat contains one wet (8 m2 ) and one dry (10 m2 ) laboratory equipped with refrigerators and freezers. Fresh and salt water lines are available in the lower deck, in the wet laboratory and astern. Deck instruments include one 2000 kg hydraulic crane, one hydraulic winch with 300 m of 6 mm armoured cable, one hydraulic winch with 200 m of 8 mm steel wire rope. A 1,5 m3 afterpeak is available to hold oceanographic instrumentation under the 13 m2 wide stern. Instruments for biological, coastal oceanography and monitoring researches are installed on the boat. A rosette equipped with 12-8 litres bottles and one CTDO probe with altimeter, fluorometer and turbidimeter enable to profile the water column. Continuous monitoring on surface water is obtained by a water line feeding both a measurement chamber in which a CTDO probe with integrated fluorometer-turbidimeter is fitted and a group of automatic colorimetric analyzers measuring NH4, NO3, PO4. Meteorological data are measured by a station equipped with barometer, thermometer, anemometer, pyranometer. A data acquisition computer integrates data measured by the scientific instruments with navigation data coming from the GPS.