I started by scanning pages from this manual on 1 June, 2006 while offshore of the Alaskan Peninsula onboard the Oceanographic Vessel "Ocean Pioneer" using a Canon Cano-Scan N1240U flat bed scanner.  This scanner is small and lightweight enough for travel and powered through the USB cable from computer.  My laptop is a Compaq Presario 2104, 2.1ghz AMD Processor, 30gig Hard Drive with 768mb Ram.  The operating system is Windows XP Home Version with SP2.  This computer has been used for the previous two years to put other manuals online.

     Completed setting up the web pages after scanning, editing and formatting 1230 pages on 25 June 2006.  Uploaded onto the server and internet on 4 August 2006.

 Time used to make this manual possible on the internet for anyone to use:

     Software used:

Canon's CanoScan, Version 4.1.3.1 to scan pages.

MS Photo Editor, version 3.0.2.3 which came with MS Office XP Professional 2003 to edit and resize pages.

ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition, build 7.0.0.620 for optical character recognition for some pages.

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional for water marking.

MS Front Page 2002 SP3 to format web pages.

Keith Hardy

4 August 2006

Ocean Pioneer