Figure 8. Skead sounder invented by Francis Skead during telegraph surveyoperations between Malta and Crete off HMS TARTARUS in 1857. This device wasdesigned to mitigate problems with the Brooke and Bonnici sounders. The firstwould sink in soft se
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Photographer: Y. Berard
Credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
Subject: Oceanography
Subject: Historical instruments