Specification

Principal Features

• Classification: UK MCA MECAL CoP 2: 60nm
• Registration No: M02WB022107
• Port of Registry: Cardiff
• Length Overall:23.3 metres
• Length BP:21.1 metres
• Breadth Overall:8 metres
• Dreadth Moulded:7.2 metres
• Deck Area:50 m2 deck area
• Draft:2.5 metres (2.8 metres loaded)
• Speed Min/Max:3 knots / 8 knots
• Power:2 x 350hp continuous rated
• Bollard Pull:10 tonnes
• Range:10 tonnes
• Duration:8-10 days
• Gross tonnage: 128 GRT
• Net tonnage:39 NRT
• Displacement: 220 Tonnes
• Fuel Capacity:44m3
• Freshwater: 9 m3
• Blackwater:2 m3
• Accommodation: 12 persons overnight
• Safety LSA: 15 persons total
• Crew:4/6
• Callsign: G H L Z
  Year Built: 1977

Accommodation Areas

• 6 cabins for 12 persons in total
• Mess area with TV Video
• Galley

Main Engines

• 2 x Cummins NTA855M 350hp continuous rated to Twin Disc gearboxes. Two control stations plus engine room.

Main Propulsion

• 2 x Kaplan Propellors in fixed Kort Nozzles
  

  Generators

• 2 x 110 kVA 3 ph 415V ac
• 1 x 40kva 3ph 415V ac
  

  Power Supplies

• 1 x 63A 415v 50Hz AC supply for deck
• 1 x 32A 220v 50Hz AC supply for deck
• 1 x 16A 220v 50Hz AC supply for lab
• 1 x 24v DC supply for bridge / lab electronics
• 1 x 12v DC supply for bridge / lab electronics

Safety System

• CCTV, MOB alert, 5.4m AVON RIB quick launch work boat. Comprehensive QA system with Standard Safety & IMCA audits completed.

Consumption Guide

• Transit= 100l / hour
• On survey= 100l / hour
• Standby at sea= 50l / hour
• Standby alongside= 50l / hour
  

  Handling Facilities

• Hydraulic Deck Crane HyTek Sea Crane 14t/m with high speed 1.5t sampling winch
• Tugger Winch SAMIA Hydrobloc S35 3.5t SWL
• A-Frame Aft 6.5t SWL
• Deck Winch Gearmatic Commercial Motors 6.5t SWL
• 4 point mooring system available
  

  Navigational Equipment

• 2 x radar including MARPA
• 1 x Navitron 990 Autopilot
• 1 x colour echosounders
• 2 x CSi dGPS heading & position systems
• UKHO Admiralty Electronic charting

External Communications

• 2 x ICOM VHF
• 2 x handheld VHFs for deck operations
• GSM 3G mobile
• Satcomms via Iridium (urgency use only)

Pumps

• Pumps 2 x 2”, 2 x 1.5” Fire/bilge deck wash

Special Features

• COWRIE Compliant for Ornithological Surveys:
• Exceeds the minimum eye height: (5.8m and 8.1m seated)
• Exceeds the minimum cruising speed: (8.5 knots)
• Exceeds the minimum vessel size: (23.5m)
• Complies with not being a past or present fishing vessel
• Provides ample space for multiple observers on both sides
• Provides comfortable accommodation for off watch periods
• Survey sensor instrumentation available
• Residential Quality Exhaust Silencer

Survey Equipment Available

• Standard & Heavy Duty Vibrocoring to 6m below seabed
• CPT to 20m penetration below seabed
• Multibeam (swath) bathymetry systems
• Multiaxis heave compensator systems
• Geophysical profiling pinger and boomer systems
• ROV for biological, geological survey and inspection
• Dual frequency sidescan sonar systems
• Seabed grab samplers (Hamon, Day, Van Veen, Hydraulic Clamshell etc)
• 2m and 4m beam trawls
• Box corer, gravity, piston and drop corer