*2002/02/28 09:52:16.84
*IOS HEADER VERSION 1.3  1999/04/13 1999/12/09

*FILE
    START TIME          : UTC 1968/05/18 21:12:00.000
    NUMBER OF RECORDS   : 20
    DATA DESCRIPTION    : Bottle:Wire
    FILE TYPE           : ASCII
    DATA TYPE           : REAL*4
    PAD                 : -99
    NUMBER OF CHANNELS  : 3

    $TABLE: CHANNELS
    ! No Name                    Units    Minimum        Maximum
    ! -- ----------------------- -------- -------------- --------------
       1 Depth                   metres   0              1500
       2 Temperature:Reversing   'deg C'  2.4            9.8
       3 Salinity:Bottle         ppt      31.92          34.514
    $END

    $TABLE: CHANNEL DETAIL
    ! No  Pad   Start  Width  Format  Type  Decimal_Places
    ! --  ----  -----  -----  ------  ----  --------------
       1  ' '   ' '        6  F       ' '     0
       2  ' '   ' '        7  F       ' '     2
       3  ' '   ' '        8  F       ' '     3
    $END

*ADMINISTRATION
    MISSION             : 1968-05
    AGENCY              : POG, Nanaimo, B.C.
    COUNTRY             : Canada
    PROJECT             : Station P
    SCIENTIST           : Healey D.A.
    PLATFORM            : Vancouver

*LOCATION
    GEOGRAPHIC AREA     : NE PACIFIC
    STATION             : 6
    EVENT NUMBER        : 6
    LATITUDE            :  49   2.00000 N  ! (deg min)
    LONGITUDE           : 130  40.00000 W  ! (deg min)

*HISTORY

    $TABLE: PROGRAMS
    !   Name     Vers   Date       Time     Recs In   Recs Out
    !   -------- ------ ---------- -------- --------- ---------
        HDREDIT2 1.3    2002/02/12 10:58:12 ?         ?
        HDREDIT2 1.3    2002/02/12 10:58:38 ?         ?
        HDREDIT2 1.3    2002/02/28 09:52:16 ?         ?
    $END

*COMMENTS
 Converted from SUS TABATA's STDHYD data files by Robin Brown

 Additional comments

 Contents:
 Cast data from Weathership program using ships C.C.G.S."Vancouver" &
 C.C.G.S. "Quadra" from Vancouver Island, BC, Canada to Ocean Weather Station P
 [50N x 145W].
 Data incl SWT,SAL,O2,NO3

 Sample collection methods:
 Sea Water Temp
 -  reversing thermometers mounted on Reversing Bottle samplers
 Salinity
 - Collected in Reversing Bottle samplers
 Dissolved Oxygen
 - Collected in Reversing Bottle samplers
 Reactive Nutrients (nitrate)
 - Collected in Reversing Bottle samplers

 Sample analysis methods:
 Sea Water Temp
 -  Shipboard reading of reversing thermometers
 Salinity
 - Shipboard analysis with Salinometer Autolab Model 601 MkIII
 Dissolved Oxygen
 - Shipboard analysis - modified Winkler method
 Reactive Nutrients (nitrate)
 - Shipboard analysis - see reference manual by Strickland 1958a, 1958b

 References:
 1. Canadian Oceanographic Data Centre. MS, 1969. Ocean Weather Station "P",
 North Pacific Ocean. 1969 Data Record Series, No. 69-10 (Feb - May, 1968);
 No. 69-12 (May - Aug, 1968).
 2. Fisheries Research Board of Canada (FRB), Manuscript Report Series,
 No. 1047, Oceanographic Observations At Ocean Station P, (50N, 145W),
 9 August - 26 September, 1968.
 3. Fisheries Research Board of Canada (FRB), Technical Report, No. 143,
 Oceanographic Observations At Ocean Station P, (50N, 145W), 27 October 1968
 to 26 February 1969.
 4. Stephens, K. 1968. Data record : Primary Production Data from the Northeast
 Pacific Ocean January 1967 to December 1969. Fisheries Research Board of Canada
 Manuscript report series No. 1123.
 5. Above references @Institute of Ocean Sciences Library, Sidney, B.C.

*INSTRUMENT
    TYPE                : Bottle
    MODEL               : Nansen 1-Litre
!--1-- --2--- ---3---
!Depth Temper Salinit
!      ature: y:     
!      Revers Bottle 
!      ing           
!----- ------ -------
*END OF HEADER
    0.   9.80  31.920
   10.   9.31  32.019
   20.   8.02  32.325
   30.   7.78  32.412
   50.   7.35  32.435
   75.   6.80  32.735
  100.   7.02  33.239
  125.   7.00  33.551
  150.   6.81  33.734
  175.   6.54  33.835
  200.   6.29  33.866
  250.   5.98  33.918
  300.   5.49  33.958
  400.   4.83  34.023
  500.   4.59  34.110
  600.   4.27  34.184
  800.   3.76  34.293
 1000.   3.26  34.387
 1200.   2.86  34.441
 1500.   2.40  34.514