Nansen bottle

When the Nansen bottle has reached the desired depth, a weight is sent down the cable.

"Those Nansen bottles we brought you from the escarpment.

A Nansen bottle is a device for obtaining samples of seawater at a specific depth.

They are generally used in pairs in Nansen bottles.

"Oh, that controls the Nansen bottle," Alexander said.

Seawater samples are obtained using various devices, such as the Nansen bottle, a cylindrical container with a lid at each end.

The sea temperature at the water sampling depth is recorded by means of a reversing thermometer fixed to the Nansen bottle.

A second messenger can be arranged to be released by the inverting mechanism, and slide down the cable until it reaches another Nansen bottle.

The Nansen bottle has largely been superseded by the Niskin bottle and now is no longer under manufacture, though it still sees use.

Vicki Lorenz, her knees failing, slid against the near wall of her office, so near collapse that she dropped the Nansen bottle.

- Reversing Thermometer (for Nansen Bottle)

An empty Nansen bottle, its heavy brass hidden with white epoxy paint, nearly toppled to the floor but Vicki caught it just above Scrapper's head.

The Niskin bottle is a development of the Nansen bottle patented by Shale Niskin in March 1966.

She leaped to her feet, grasped the heavy Nansen bottle with her free hand and prepared to toss it against the tank in the wild hope that it might prove an instant's diversion.

They're tigers with a salinometer, a nansen bottle or a microscope, but their skill at knifing another man in the guts or shooting a barbed spear into a navel leaves much to be desired."

One of Nansen's lasting contributions to oceanography was his work designing instruments and equipment; the "Nansen bottle" for taking deep water samples remained in use into the 21st century, in a version updated by Shale Niskin.