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Vessel Data and Contact Information for the
Nadir

Last Updated - 9/12/2003
Main Activities
Dimensions
Capacities & Workspaces
Range, Speed, Endurance
Accommodations
DP Equipment
CTD Specs
Coring Specs
Underwater Vehicles
Diving Capabilities
Engineering Design
Navigation & Communications
Acoustics & Profiling
Winches, Gantries & Cranes
Construction
Country: France

NODC Code:

35NC
    Call Sign: FZOP
Owner: Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)
Operator: Genavir
Contact: Jean Chavier Castrec
Address: Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
155, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau
92138 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex, France
Telephone: (33) 01 46 48 21 00
Fax: (33) 01 46 48 21 21
Email: jean.chavier.castrec@ifremer.fr
Year Built: 1974
Ship URL: Link to Ship Home Page

Ship Schedule URL:

Unknown

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Main Dimensions

  Length OA: 55.75  m
  Breadth: 11.91  m
  Freeboard to working deck: Unknown
  Max. draft: 4.68  m
   

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Main Vessel Activity

  Main Activity: Mainly used as a support ship to the Nautile, for multi-trace seismics and the SAR/Pasisar system
  Operating Area:
  Navy Grids Supported:
   

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Capacities and Working Spaces

  Gross tonnage: 1142  GRT
  Dry cargo holds: Unknown
  Fuel: 310  m3
  Wet Labs Area: Unknown
  Dry Lab Area: Unknown
  Fresh Water
 Storage Capacity:
109  m3
  Fresh Water Generator Capacity: Unknown
  Scientific Clean Water Generation: Unknown
  Free Working Deck Area: Unknown
  Space for container lab: Sites for 12 laboratories or workshops containers 20 ft  m
  Radioactive Isotope Work Areas: Unknown
   

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Range, Speed and Endurance

  Range: Unknown
  Cruising Speed: Unknown
  Max. Speed: Unknown
  Endurance: Unknown
   

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Accommodation

  Officers: 5
  Other crew: 10
  Scientists: 25
  Air Conditioned: Unknown
     

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Data Processing Equipment:

  Computers: Unknown
  Printing/Plotting: Unknown
     

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CTD Specifications:

  CTD Aboard: Unknown
  CTD Type: Unknown
  CTD Tow able: Unknown
  CTD Oxygen Sensing: Unknown
  CTD Transmissivity: Unknown
  CTD Fluormeter: Unknown
  CTD Rosette: Unknown
     

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Coring Specifications:

  Coring Capabilities Aboard: Unknown
  Grab Sampler: Unknown
  Box Corer: Unknown
  Gravity Corer: Unknown
  Piston Corer: Unknown
  Multi Corer: Unknown
     

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Underwater Vehicle Capabilities:

  Underwater Vehicle Support: Support ship for the Nautile
  ROVs: Unknown
  AUVs: Unknown
  Submersibles: Nautile
     

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Diving Support:

  Diving Capabilities: Unknown
     

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Engineering Design Particulars

 

Ice Breaking Ability:

Unknown
 

Hull Materials:

 
Unknown
  Dynamic Positioning Ability: Unknown
  Engines: Main engine(s): number:  4   make:  Baudoin DVX 12 - 600 CV
Power (BHP) each engine:  Unknown

Propeller Diameter:  Unknown
  m Max. RPM:   Unknown
Total power auxiliary diesels:  Unknown
  HP
  Electrical Systems:  
 

AC    

 Voltages: Unknown
     kVA: Unknown
    Phases: Unknown
   

Frequency:

Unknown
   

Stabilized System:  Unknown  VAC  Unknown  AMPs   Unknown  Hz

 

DC

  Unknown   Volts with  Unknown  Volts Max

       
 

Fixed Equipment

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Navigation and Communication:

  Navigational Equipment: Integrated navigation computer - CINNA; Navigational computer and electronic mapping Sodena Turbo 2000; electromagnetic log calypso - Ben; 2 gyrocompasses SGB 1000 - Brown
  Communications Equipment: Radiocomunicator
  Satellite Communications Equipment: Unknown
  GPS: Differential GPS receiver NR 51 - Sercel; Differential GPS receiver NR 109 - Sercel
     

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Acoustics and Profiling:

  Echosounders: Unknown
  Sonar Type: Unknown
  Sea Surface Mapping System: Unknown
  Side Scanning: Unknown
  Multibeam: Unknown
  Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler: Unknown
  Silent Ship Operations: Unknown
     

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Oceanographic:

  Winches: Unknown  
    Steel Wire Length: Unknown  safe working load:  Unknown
    Conducting Cable Length:  Unknown , safe working load:  Unknown
    Trawl winch length:  Unknown , safe working load:  Unknown
    Other Winches:
      Length:  Unknown , safe working load:  Unknown
     
  Gantry: Position: Unknown
   

Clearance above deck:  Unknown , and outboard extension:  Unknown

   

Safe working load at maximum reach:  Unknown

       
  Crane: Position: Deck
   

Clearance above deck:  Unknown  and outboard extension:  15  m

   

Safe working load at maximum reach:  3  tons

       
  Other:   Unknown
       

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Vessel Construction and Maintenance Supervision

  Construction Supervised by: Unknown
  Classification Society: Unknown
  Others, Specify: Unknown
     
 
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