Designed to operate from close inshore to continental shelf edges, the 35m-long vessel is equipped with wet and dry laboratories, containers and hoists. Hydrographic systems include an RDI broadband ADCP, Kongsberg-Simrad positioning, echosounder and data acquisition systems, a GeoAcoustics pinger, a QTC seabed classification system, and meteorological as well as oceanographic sensor suites from WS Ocean Systems.

Ian Piper of VTOS says applications will be treated on a first-come-first-served basis.

He can be contacted either by telephone 02393 354774 or email: PrinceMadog@vtis.com