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Re: Paleo21 - Avocational paleontologists



A Van Veen is simply a tool which grabs a chunk of the sea floor. Where I 
use it the sea floor is from 30 to 100 fathoms (180 to 600+ feet) When I 
was younger I would have dived down not not now :-)

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, bpettit wrote:
> Jon,
> I hate to seem ignorant, but what is a "Van Veen" and what does it do? 
> If you want something off the bottom, why not dive down and get it?  Or
> are you talking REAL deep bottoms?
> Billy
>