Since then she has undertaken several campaigns, which included depth sounding, current measuring, water sampling and bottom sampling.
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The Natural Resources Ministry of Russia announced that the bottom samples collected from the expedition are similar to those found on continental shelves.
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Throughout this part of the voyage a regular programme of depth soundings, trawls, and sea-bottom samples provided a comprehensive record of the oceanography and marine life of the Weddell Sea.
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While en route Guam from Palau, she collected a 13-foot ( 4-meter ) bottom core sample from the Mariana Trench and made a GEP profile and took bottom samples west of Guam.
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Small bottom-dwelling micromollusks such as " Pisidium " species are found by scooping a bottom sample of mud into a fine meshed long-handled net, and then agitating it and moving it through the water repeatedly, until only solid particles remain in the net.
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After a port call, she put to sea again on 1 May 1963, making Nansen bottle casts, collecting bottom samples & ndash; including a seven-foot ( 2.1-meter ) core sample taken at a depth of 22, 170 feet ( 5, 822 meters ) in the Aleutian Trench & ndash; studying currents with drift bottles and a 54 degrees North latitude.
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