Bridge Equipment
- Echo Sounder: Furuno FE700 with 200kHz and 50kHz single beam transducers
- ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System): Transas ES2 with Navi-Sailor 2400 software
- Video input switch on port Transas ES2 for viewing HYPACK, ADCP, ROV, and other operational feeds from ship's labs or portable labs
- RADAR: Furuno FAR2835 S-band and Furuno FAR2825 X-band w/ ARPA
- Dynamic Positioning System (DPS): Beier displays on forward and aft control consoles; holds station or maintains precise trackline
- Differential GPS for DPS: 2 Trimble DSM 212L
- GPS: Furuno GP-7000, Furuno GP-37, and Furuno GP-90
- Automatic Identification System (AIS): Furuno FA-100 feeds to ECDIS and radars
- Digital Gyrocompass: 2 Meridian Surveyors and 9 repeaters
- Speed Log: EM2000 Electromagnetic
- NAVTEX: Furuno NX-500 provides local weather and safety information
- Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS): Furuno suite receives and transmits distress signals and marine safety information
- RM Young Wind Tracker: Displays relative wind speed and direction
- Scientific Computing System (SCS) display
- Windows display for tides/currents, weather forecasts, etc.
- Machinery Alarm and Control System (MACS): monitors and controls machinery throughout the ship; one display forward
- Steering Alarm and Control System (SACS): monitors and controls ship’s propulsion and steering systems from forward, aft, and port and starboard bridge wing control consoles
Communication Equipment
- INMARSAT - C
- Fleet 77 satellite voice, fax, and data line
- HF SSB/DSC transceiver
- Cellular telephone
- Land lines in port: 2
- Iridium
- VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) using VSAT
- VSAT: satellite Internet connection
- Furuno FM8500 Bridge-to-Bridge VHF radio: 2
- VHF Hand-held radios for ship-to-launch and intra-ship communications
- NANCY FOSTER's E-mail address is: CO.Nancy.Foster@noaa.gov
Scientific Equipment
- Scientific Computing System (SCS)
- Mid-depth multibeam echo sounder: Simrad EM1002 System (95 kHz, 20m-1000m)
- Shallow water multibeam echo sounder: Reson 7125 System (400 kHz and 200 kHz, 250m max)
- Shallow/deep water single beam echo sounder: Knudsen Chirp 3200 (200 kHz and 12 kHz, 7000m max)
- Split beam echo sounder for fisheries acoustics: Simrad EK60 System (200 kHz, 120 kHz and 38 kHz)
- Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP): TRDI OS150 (150 kHz, 16m-350m), measures ocean current speed and direction
- HYPACK data acquisition and navigation software
- Caris HIPS/SIPS for multibeam data processing
- Position, motion and heading: Applanix POS MV with Trimble DSM132 DGPS
- CTDs: SBE 911plus with 12 bottle, 1.71 liter or 5 liter water sampling system; SBE 19 (2), SBE 17plus, SBE 36plus with PDIM
- Additional CTD sensors: SBE 43 (DO), SBE 18 (pH), Seapoint SCF fluorometer, Seapoint turbidity meter, Benthos altimeter (200 kHz, <100m)
- Uncontaminated Seawater System: SBE 38 (SS temperature), SBE 21 (TSG), SBE 45 (Micro TSG), Turner 10AU fluorometer
- RM Young weather suite to monitor wind speed and direction, temperature, relative humidity and barometric pressure
- Closed Circuit Television: monitors deck operations from three vantage points and is fed throughout ship
- 40-inch wide-screen video monitor in Dry Lab for presentations, navigation, or video/data feeds
Entertainment
- Satellite Television System
- 8mm Video System
Security
- Closed-circuit Television
