This 230′ Ship has been used as a global crewed oceanographic operations platform. She has special scanning sonars, large tow/trawl winch, two large deck cranes, and a new high tech electronics and communications system. There are accommodations for 45 plus crew. She has been fully rebuilt, modernized and re-appointed.
She can meet the requirements for a wide variety of possible configurations and duties, including but not limited to: Pelagic deep ocean geo-survey; Ocean biological research; General ocean research and survey; Fisheries research; Oil exploration and survey; General oil field support; Standby vessel; Security vessel; Hospital vessel; Conversion to Expedition vessel; Conversion to Full luxury yacht.
The vessel is fantastically seaworthy and in excellent operational condition. She is available for purchase or long term charter.
This multi-purpose ship worked the waters of the United States including the Virgin Islands as a hydrographic survey and seafloor mapping ship. As an oceanographic ship, its operations extended from the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. During its highly diversified career, she helped make our nation’s waterways safer by conducting hydrographic surveys along the Atlantic Coast, the Great Lakes, and in the Caribbean Sea. The ship even passed through the Panama Canal and went north to Alaska for survey work in 1986.
From the late 1960’s to the late 1980’s, the vessel conducted oceanographic and atmospheric studies in support of ocean-atmosphere interactions. During this time, the studies took the vessel from Iceland to Brazil and from the United States East Coast to Western Europe.
Also in the late 1980’s, the ship was fitted with a multi-beam sounding system and became one of the most advanced seafloor mapping ships of its time. It conducted deep water surveys in the Gulf of Mexico and off the United States East Coast.
The ship went truly global in 1992 as it was used in the Persian Gulf to study the effects of the intentional oil spill caused by the Iraqi Government during the 1991 Gulf War. It returned to the United States to be awarded a Silver Medal Award for the Persian Gulf Operation and resume its career as a hydrographic survey vessel. The vessel was then decommissioned in 1995.
After safe removal of Asbestos, CFCs, and PCBs, the vessel was laid up until it was purchased in September of 2001. For the next two years the vessel was retro-fitted with the latest in electronics, machinery, and safety equipment. The extensive multi-million dollar project was completed in 2003 when the vessel sailed under her own power for the first time in nearly three years which was a near flawless transit of the Gulf of Mexico, Panama Canal, and the Pacific Coast of Mexico and North America.
