Government Ship Installations

187' NOAA Research Vessel

 Homeported in Charleston, South Carolina, Foster is one of the most operationally diverse platforms in the NOAA fleet. The ship supports fish habitat and population studies, seafloor mapping surveys, oceanographic studies, and maritime heritage surveys. 

224' NOAA Coral Reef Mapping Vessel

 Homeported in Honolulu, Hawaii, NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai is a multipurpose oceanographic research vessel whose main missions include coral reef ecosystem mapping, coral reef health and fish stock studies, and maritime heritage surveys. 

224' NOAA Climate Research Vessel

 Ka’imimoana (Hawaiian for “ocean seeker”) supported climate studies and deployed, recovered and serviced deep-sea moorings for data-collecting buoys from its Honolulu, Hawaii homeport.

224' NOAA Ocean Floor Explorer Vessel

 NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer is "America's ship for ocean exploration." Dedicated to exploration and discovery, Okeanos Explorer maps the seafloor, explores shipwrecks, and characterizes largely unknown areas of the ocean. 

224' NOAA Research Vessel

 Homeported in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Sette is a multipurpose oceanographic research vessel that conducts fisheries assessments, physical and chemical oceanography research, marine mammal and marine debris surveys; Operating the central and western Pacific Ocean. 

261' NSF Research Vessel

Sikuliaq is an American research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.  Major research includes climate change effects and increased human use of Arctic regions on various issues such as ocean circulation and ecosystem dynamics.