Oceanographic vessels

RV Aegaeo, Greece

Ship Characteristics
Length: 62 m
Max speed: 12.5 knots
Max cruising range: 20 days
On board staff: 22 Crew; 21 scientific personnel
Length overall: 61.51 m
LBP: 55.87
Max breadth: 9.60 m
Summer draught: 2.9 m
Gross tonnage: 778 REG. TON
Net tonnage: 233 REG. TON

Scientific Laboratories
General Laboratories (Chemistry/ Biology): 29 sq.m.
Wet Laboratory: 10 sq.m
Primary Productive Laboratory: 6 sq.m
CTD and Geological Acoustics survey room: 32 sq.m
Swath-Bathymetry (Multi-Beam) Laboratory: 6 sq.m
Container converted to clean room (for dissolved trace element analysis): 12 sq.m
Computer Laboratory: 6 sq.m

RV Mare Nigrum, Romania

Owner and Operator: Geo Eco Mar Bucharest

Main dimensions
Length OA: 82.2 m Breadth:13.6 m Max. draft: 5 m

Capacities and working spaces
Gross tonnage: 3200 tons
Fuel: 300 m3
Wet Labs Area: 30 m2
Dry Lab Area: 170 m2
Fresh Water Storage Capacity: 120 m3
Fresh Water Generator Capacity: 8 m3/day
Free Working Deck Area: 500  m2
Space for container lab: 1x20ft.&4x10ft m

Range, cruising speed and endurance
Cruising Speed: 10 kts.
Max. Speed: 12 kts.
Endurance: 40 days

Accommodation
Officers:7 Other crew: 19 Scientists: 25

Oceanographic Equipment
Winches: 3  
Steel Wire Length: 2500 m
Conducting Cable Length: 2000  m
CTD Length: 2000
Crane: Clearance above
deck: 15 m
outboard extension: 12 m
Safe working load at maximum reach: 2 tons
Other: 2 Mooring winches Position – prow, 1.8 t each

RV L’Atalante, France

Specifications
Length overall: 84,60 m
Overall breadth: 15,85 m
Draught: 5,1 m
Load displacement: 3 550 t
Gross tonnage: 3 559 UMS
Year of construction: 1989
Classification Bureau Veritas: I3/3E classification, malte.jpg (1854 octets), open sea, ice II, AUT-PORT, oceanographic research
Official number: BR 732 996 K
N° MMSI: 227 222 00
Stabilization: passive fuel tank
Ship's crew: 17 to 30 depending on type of mission
Average operating cruising speed and survey speed: 11 knots
Maximum trial speed: 15.3 knots
Number of crew: 30 people

RV Bilim, Turkey

Displacement: 421 G.R.T.
Cruising speed: 9.5 knots
Number of scientists and technicians onboard: 6 scientists + 7 technicians

Laboratories and number of seats at laboratories:
Wet Lab (filtrations),
chemistry lab (auto-analysis, DO, pH measurements) biology lab,
primary production lab, CTD and Geological Acoustic survey
Lab, 9-10 working places.
Equipment: CTDs +Rosettes with 12 bottles (5L capacity), 30 L bottle, winch for plankton nets and bottle casts, ADCP, fluorometer

RV Urania, Italy

Displacement: 1115 ton
Cruising speed: 12.0 knots
Number of scientists: 19
Range: 45 days

Equipments
Echosounder DESO25.
Echosounder ATLAS fishfinder
Echosounder KODEN CVS 8805
CTD probe SBE 911 plus
Rosette sampler for 24 niskin 10-L bottles
ADCP current meter
Zooplankton net
Side Scan Sonar 59 KHz
Sub Bottom profiler 3.5 KHz.
Chirp Datasonic profiler
ROV
Multibeam
Sparker 4500 Joule
Gravity, piston corers and box corer
Grabs

RV Shiqmona, Israel

Year built: 1963
Year acquired by IOLR: 1982
Hull: Steel
Length: 27m
Beam: 6.9m
Draft: 3.7m
Displacement, full: 172 tonnes
Installed power: Twin screw, 12v-71GM engines 254 kW each
Fuel capacity: 32,000 litres
Service speed: 10 knots; Range: 2,500 nm
Number of crew: 5; Scientific team: 15
Usage: all types of oceanographic research including deep water operations, coring, trawl towing and large sampling.

RV Akvanavt, Russia

length:34 m
load displacement:273 m3
cruising speed:7.5 kn
number of scientists on board:10

The ship has the laboratory with area of 16 m2. It is equipped by two winches (one with the slip ring) for lowering oceanographic probes, biological nets and other devices to the depth of 2500 m.

RV Akademik, Bulgaria

Displacement: 1225 t
Length o.a.: 55,5m
Breadth: 9,8 m
Draught: 4,8 m
Speed: 10 kn
Endurance: 30 days
Crew: 20
Scientists: 22
Four laboratories

At present R/V AKADEMIK is very good maintained, well equipped and with the best operational characteristics multi-purpose research vessel in the Black sea region

RV Hannibal, Tunisia

Age: 10 years
Registered length: 30.21m
Length enters perpendiculars: 29.00m
Width except members: 7.8m
Pulling water: 3.4m
Raw tonnage: 268 t
Net tonnage: 81 t
Speed: 12.53 kno max
Main engine: NIGATA 6MG19HX, 950CVx1
Scientists: 7
Autonomy: 21 days

RV Regina Maris, Spain

Lenght: 34m
Beam: 7.70m
Draugth: 4m
Puntal: 4.20m
Speed: 14 nuds
Crew: 8
Scientists: 8