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Technical specifications RV Simon Stevin
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| Main characteristics |
| IMO number: | 9622681 |
| Length: | 36 m |
| Beam: | 9.4 m |
| Draught: | 3.5 m |
| Speed: | 12 kn |
| Year of construction: | 2012 |
| Homeport: | Ostend - Belgium |
| Service: | Research vessel |
| Crew: | 7 (10 for overnight trips) |
| Scientists: | Up to 20 for day trips, up to 10 for overnight trips |
| Autonomy: | 5 days |
| Work area: | Southern part of the North Sea and eastern part of the English Channel |
| 200 nm (or ca. 370 km) |
| Navigation & Communication |
| Automatic pilot: | ALPHATRON ALPHASEA MFC |
| Dynamic positioning: | NAVIS Finland IVCS (DP0) |
| Speedlog: | Dopplerlog JRC JLN 205 |
| Echosounder: | JRC JFE 380/25 @50kHz |
| Navigational equipment: | DGPS JRC JLR 7800 |
| MGB-Tech RTK GPS |
| ECDIS TRANSAS |
| NAVTEX JRC NCR 333 |
| X-band radar: | 2x JRC JMA 5312-6 |
| Communication: | ALPHATRON GSM system |
| VHF radio |
| SSB radio 200 nm |
| Power |
| Dieselgeneratorset: | 3x STAMFORD HCM 534F2 600 kVA 478 ekW |
| 3x SCANIA DI 1655 M diesel engines 550 bkW @1800 rpm 1.95 liters per cylinder |
| Propulsion motors: | 2x IDAR ACP-500-S elektrical propulstion motors 520 bKW @350 rpm |
| Fuel: | Marine diesel - EN590 |
| Bow thruster: | 1x HRP 200 bkW |
| Accomodation |
| Double cabins: | 5 for scientists, 4 for permanent crew |
| Single cabins: | 1 for the captain, 1 for the chief engineer |
| Mess / meeting room: | Up to 20 persons |
| Scientific space |
| Wet lab: | 16 m² |
| Dry lab: | 12 m² |
| Computer room: | Up to 6 persons |
| Deck machinery |
| Large A-frame on the stern (6 ton) |
| Two winches, each 6 ton traction |
| Hydraulic deck crane for (dis)-embarking loads |
| Aft deck space (48 m²) + fittings for 20 ft and 10 ft standard containers |
| Telescopic arm on starboard side to lower small oceanographic gear |
| A-frame on starboard side for small bottom and water quality samples (1 ton) |
| Survey equipment |
| Sonars: | Multibeam echosounder (Kongsberg EM2040 200 kHz & 400 kHz) |
| Singlebeam echosounder (Teledyne odom echotrac CV-300) |
| ADCP (Teledyne workhorse mariner 600 kHz) |
| ROV Genesis: | Cherokee ROV (IXSea GAPS system) |
| Sediment sampling: | Van Veen grab, Reineck boxcorer, Multicorer, ... |
| Water sampling: | NISKIN bottles, GO-FLO bottles, ... |
| CTD (Seabird 19plusV2) with turbidity and dissolved oxygen sensor |
| Thermosalinograph (Seabird 21) and fluorimeter (CHELSEA Minitracka III) |
| Watersampler carrousel (6 bottles of 4 liters) (Seabird 55 ECO) |
| Fishery: | beam trawl, net drum, MIK-net, ... |
| Meteo: | meteo system on bow mast |
| IT system: | 'Marine Information and Data Acquistion System' MIDAS |
| 2 Vmware servers |
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| Lab equipment |
| MILLIPORE water filtration installation |
| Vacuum filtration set |
| Lab oven |
| Lab hood |
| Compressed air pipes |
| Freezer / refrigerator 5 m³ |
| Fish sorting tables |
| Others |
| 'Silent ship' conform ICES 209 standard |
| Possibility to perform scientific dives |
| Seating arrangements, on top of the wheelhouse for observation and counting of birds |
| VLOOT eco-programme |
| Low sulfur fuel (EN590) |
| 'Engine international air pollution prevention certificate' conform IMO |
| Energy recycling on main engines to heat the vessel |
| Antifouling system conform IMO 'International convention on the control of harmful antifouling', use of a 'three pack fluoropolymer foul release coating' and an active cathode antifouling system |
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