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Nancy Foster is a versatile research platform with numerous capabilities, including:
- Near coastal and deep water ocean chemistry sampling
- Shallow water and mid-depth multibeam echo sounder surveying
- Deployment of multiple dive teams using three small boats
- Support of Remotely Operated Vehicles, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, and drift cameras
- Servicing oceanographic and atmospheric surface and subsurface buoys
- Fishery acoustic surveying and ocean current profiling
- Plankton net tows
- Sediment sampling
- Seismic profiler tows and side-scan sonar tows
GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Transferred from the Navy in 2001
- Commissioned on May 10, 2004
- Hull Number: R 352
- Call Letters: WTER
- Home Port : Charleston , SC
- Operation Area: East and Gulf Coasts , Caribbean Sea
- Length: 187 ft (56.7m)
- Beam: 40 ft (12.1 m)
- Draft Max: 11'0", Projected Draft 12'10"
- Work Area: 1,600 sq ft
- Displacement (Full Load): 1,190 tons
- Designer: McDermott, Inc
- Builder: McDermott, Inc., Amelia , Louisiana
Speed & Endurance
- Cruising Speed: 10 knots
- Range: 7,700 nm
- Endurance: 18 days
- Endurance Constraint: Food
Berthing
- Single Staterooms: 5
- Double Staterooms: 10
- Quadruple Staterooms: 3
- Total Bunks: 37
Medical Facilities
- Emergency and first-aid equipment aboard, administered by trained vessel personnel and certified MPIC.
Compliment
- Commissioned Officers: 6
- Licensed Engineers: 3
- Electronic Technician: 1
- Survey Technician: 2
- Crew: 10
- Scientists: 15
