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
>