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Identifier: R/V Savannah
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The R/V Savannah is a multi-use 92' oceanographic and fisheries research vessel operated by the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, homeported in Savannah, Georgia, and is a member of the University National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. The R/V Savannah can sleep a total of 20 people and is used for biological, chemical, physical, and geological oceanographic studies in estuarine and continental shelf waters throughout the southeastern US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. It can deploy trawls, longlines, handlines, dredges, traps, buoys, landers, and autonomous underwater vehicles, and is equipped with motion-compensated depth recorders, an acoustic doppler current profiler, CTD, crane, A-frame, pot hauler, flow-through systems, and a network of on-board ship sensors.

Record Created: January 31, 2018 9:29 AM UTC by nathan.wilson@noaa.gov
Record Last Modified: January 31, 2018 9:29 AM UTC by nathan.wilson@noaa.gov
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