Tree Boring and Bio Sampling Field Kit: The “Tree Butcher’s” rig is designed to acquire live samples and keep them fresh for a reasonable period of time. It is just about useless without lab back-up. Equipment included in this kit are tree samplers of assorted sizes, specimen jars for samples of wood, bugs, beetles, leaves, needles, bark, etc., and a digital camera to take pictures. Weight: 7kg.
Water Dye: A tube of liquid dye which can be used to highlight a patch of water (around a raft or in a lake near a crash site) with a bright, easily spotted color visible from the air. The primary drawback of this form of signaling is the short duration of the covered patch (no more than 15 minutes in still water and much less if the water is rough or there is some form of precipitation to break it up), and the fact that it cannot be used at night. Generally, water dye is only useful when the searchers are aware of the presence of the distressed party and need an exact location.
A tube provides a single dye patch of about 10 meters in diameter. Water dyes can also be used to trace underwater flows by placing them in an above ground source and then searching for dye streamers at possible exist points. Available in green, orange, yellow and red. Weight: 0.1kg per tube. Package Weight of 50: 5.3kg.
Weather Tracker: A portable, internal battery powered hand-held unit. Measures and displays wind speed, temperature, wind chill factor, relative humidity, heat index, dew point, wet bulb temperature, barometric pressure and altitude readings. The user can also view minimum, maximum and average readings and graph changing trends. Also displays current day, date and time. The unit stores all measurements automatically (up to 30-days) and can download this information into any Project computer system. Weight: 0.2kg.
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