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The 135 ft. R/V Point Sur was also designed, built and outfitted in 1980 to conduct a variety of oceanographic research missions. The vessel is owned by the University of Southern Mississippi and is managed and operated by LUMCON. The R/V Point Sur successfully conducts scientific trawling, MOCNESS trawls, large box core sampling, shallow seismic surveys, current meter array and benthic boundary array deployment and recovery. The vessel has also successfully conducted multiple types of mooring operations, plankton sampling, ADCP sampling, hydrographic casts with CTDrosette system and underway water collecting sampling systems (SCS). The vessel is homeported in Gulfport, Mississippi at the Port of Gulfport. The vessel is operated as an Research Vessel as designated by the USCG. The vessel is available for legitimate research and education programs of LUMCON and USM members, state and federal agencies, other nonprofit groups, and oceanographic industries.