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Some
of the questions in the presentation descriptions below are answered along
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pictures
of the activities on our Photos page.
Trying out the SCUBA gear
Research Ships
Hear from Captain David H. Peterson, NOAA, the first commanding officer of NOAA's newest oceanographic and atmospheric research vessel, as he talks about the ship's first around the world voyage. See a video of the ship as it is launched sideways into the water and test your math skills to answer questions such as...how many quarters would it take to pay for the RONALD H. BROWN? How many refills of a car gas tank would equal one tank of gas for the ship? What is a gumby suit and why it is so important to people living and working on a ship?
SCUBA
Diving
Joe
Wargo from the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration will talk about diving
for recreation and work. There will be a hands-on demonstration of how
to use SCUBA equipment using a volunteer from the audience. Find
out why becoming certified/trained BEFORE attempting to use SCUBA equipment
in the water is a life or death issue.
Boyles Law of physics states in part that, "For any gas at a constant temperature, the volume will vary inversely with the absolute pressure." Can you answer this? If a diver is 33 feet deep (where the absolute pressure is 29.4 psi) fills his lungs with air, holds his breath and swims to the surface (where the pressure is 14.7 psi), what happens to the volume (amount) of air in the divers lungs? A balloon will be used to demonstrate the answer.
Research
Aircraft
Find
out what it is like to fly into the eye of the hurricane and why NOAA pilots
do this from a former P-3 navigator, CDR Michael Henderson, NOAA (ret).
Learn from LT Mike Weaver, from NOAA's National Geodetic Survey's Remote
Sensing Division, how aerial photography is used to make nautical charts
and why snow on the ground is measured by aircraft in the sky. Models
of NOAA's aircraft will be displayed and one participant will get to try
on a flight suit.
For more information about this event, please contact Jeanne Kouhestani at Jeanne.G.Kouhestani@noaa.gov or (301) 713-3421 x220.