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NOAAS Okeanos Explorer (R 337) is a converted United States Navy ship (formerly USNS Capable (T-AGOS-16)), now an exploratory vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), officially launched in 2010. [1]
Using NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer's unique capabilities, scientists and other audiences onshore were provided with real-time video footage from deep-water areas in important, yet largely unknown, U.S. waters. [1]
For the team aboard the Okeanos Explorer off the coast of Alaska, exploring the mounds and craters of the sea floor along the Aleutian Islands is a chance to surface new knowledge about life in ...
This expedition was the final of three expeditions on the NOAAS Okeanos Explorer intended to increase the understanding of the deep-sea environment in the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico 2018 was a 23-day telepresence -enabled expedition to collect critical information and acquire data on priority exploration areas identified by the ocean ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Okeanos Explorer is the only federally funded U.S. ship assigned to systematically explore the oceans in pursuit of new discoveries.
USNS Capable (T-AGOS-16) was a Stalwart-class modified tactical auxiliary general ocean surveillance ship of the United States Navy in service from 1989 to 2004. In 2008, she was commissioned into service in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as the oceanographic research ship NOAAS Okeanos Explorer.
The names of NOAA ships are preceded by the prefix "NOAAS" (for "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ship") and followed by a unique hull classification symbol, or "hull number," made up of a letter indicating whether the vessel is a research ship (R) or survey ship (S), followed by a three-digit number.
NOAA Research Ship Ka'Imimana (R-333). NOAAS Rainier with her namesake, Mount Rainier, in the background. NOAAS Bell M. Shimada; NOAAS David Starr Jordan (Class IV) NOAAS Delaware II (Class IV) NOAAS Fairweather (Class II) NOAAS Ferdinand R. Hassler (Class II) NOAAS Gordon Gunter (Class III) NOAAS Hi'ialakai (Class III) NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow ...