RV ''Pelagia'' is a research vessel in the service of the
Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, also known as NIOZ, in Dutch the Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek, is the Dutch national oceanographic institute. It is located on the island of Texel, and in Yerseke, in the Netherlands. The i ...
(NIOZ), a research institute of the
Dutch Research Council
The Dutch Research Council (NWO, Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) is the national research council of the Netherlands. NWO funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course of ...
(NWO). It was built in 1991 by Verolme Shipyard in
Heusden
Heusden () is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands. It is located between the towns of Waalwijk and 's-Hertogenbosch. The municipality of Heusden, including Herpt, Heesbeen, Hedikhuizen, Doeveren, and Oudheusden, merged with ...
, The Netherlands, and has been in NIOZ-service since.
The RV ''Pelagia'' is due to be replaced but on 14 April 2022 a Dutch court ruled that the original contract must be amended, resulting in a delay of the final tender for the replacement that will bear the name RV ''Anna Weber-van Bosse'', after the
Netherlands' first female marine biologist to conduct research at sea.
Research
The
NIOZ is a Dutch research institute in the field of oceanographic sciences.
[http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2664/Nieuws/archief/article/detail/556637/2000/04/15/In-de-ban-van-de-cycloon.dhtml ] In order to do this research the NIOZ has a number of research vessel in service. The RV ''Pelagia'' is one of them. On board all kinds of survey are carried out. For instance bottom surface research to corals or a research on the amount of nutrients in the water. On board there are facilities to do this field work like fixed laboratoria or places for mobile laboratoria. But also conventional oceangoing equipment like cranes and winches for getting the equipment in and out of the water.
Usually these are
remotely operated vehicle
A remotely operated underwater vehicle (technically ROUV or just ROV) is a tethered underwater mobile device, commonly called ''underwater robot''.
Definition
This meaning is different from remote control vehicles operating on land or in the ai ...
like appliances like a
CTD or a
piston core. Furthermore, there is fixed research equipment placed on board the ''Pelagia'' like an aquaflow,
multibeam,
HIPAP and
ADCP
An acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) is a hydroacoustic current meter similar to a sonar, used to measure water current velocities over a depth range using the Doppler effect of sound waves scattered back from particles within the water col ...
for carrying out continuous survey.
Voyages
Legally the RV ''Pelagia'' is a merchant ship. It falls under the same rules and regulations as any freight carrier. The RV ''Pelagia'' is suitable for oceangoing voyages. However usually she is deployed in the waters around Europe.
The Vessel
The RV ''Pelagia'' is equipped with diesel-electric propulsion. On board there are three generatorsets installed. Two of these are used to generate the power for the propulsion. In port the emergency generator is used for the auxiliaries. The two main engines are
caterpillars
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As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies (suborder Symph ...
3508 and 3512 with an output of about 800 kW and 1000 kW.
In 2010 the ''Pelagia'' received an overhaul and upgrade at the Astander Shipyard in
Santander
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Places
* Santander, Spain, a port city and capital of the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain
* Santander Department, a department of Colombia
* Santander State, former state of Colombia
* Santander de Quilichao, a m ...
, Spain.
References
External links
Facebook page of the Pelagia.Technical specifications (PDF)
Pelagia on MarineTraffic
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Pelagia
Pelagia ( grc-gre, Πελαγία), distinguished as Pelagia of Antioch, Pelagia the Penitent, and Pelagia the Harlot, was a Christian saint and hermit in the 4th or 5th century. Her feast day was celebrated on 8 October, originally in common wi ...
Survey ships of the Netherlands