RV MARE NIGRUM

Vessel Profile

Home port:

Constanta, Romania

Home port Coordinates:

Latitude: 44°10'13.38”N Longitude: 28°39'13.57”E

Organisation & Address:

GeoEcoMar Institute

Dimitrie Onciul street, 23-25 No, Sector 2,Bucharest, Romania

Vessel Web site address:

www.geoecomar.ro/website/harta-website.html

Link to Vessel Schedules:

www.geoecomar.ro/website/nave-cercetare-mare-nigrum.html

Normal Area of Operation:

Black Sea

Max No of EF+ Days:

Vessel details:

Length	Breadth	Draught		Gross Tonnage	Ice class	DP	Service speed	Max No. Scientific Berths	No. of EF+ Scientific Berths
82m	13,6m	5,2m		2495 T			10 knots	20	20

Technical Detail

Laboratory Facilities (fixed and temporary):

Large wet, chemistry and water labs, Dry Lab, freezers (- 20°C) and refrigerators, Geophysics, geology, seismic, biology.

CTD/Plankton sampling:

CTD Rosette system:SBE 32C Carusel water Sampler with 12 five liters bottles;

Multi-Beam(s)/ Sub Bottom profiling:

Multibeam Elac Nautik Seabeam 1050 D, 50Khz,180Khz;

Fisheries Echo Sounders/Sonar:

USBL:

Coring/Sampling Capabilities:

Gravity Corer and piston Corer, 6M length;MIDICORER MARK II-400with 4 tubes, 60cm length,10cm ID;

Winches:

Steel Wire Length: 2 500 m, safe working load: 7,2 tons

Conducting Cable Length: 2 000 m, safe working load: 8 tons

Other Winches: CTD Length: 2 500

Communications:

GMDSS, VHF radiotelephone FM 8500, faximile Furuno D, Flit 55 (fax, phone, E-mail)

Special features:

Suitable for:

Multipurpose research vessel which carries out a wide variety of survey operations in offshore as well as deep sea locations, acoustic and oceanographic surveys, buoy handling operations, environmental sampling, and geological and hydrographic surveying.

Scientific Limitations:

Limited to 2400m streamer for seismic

Vessel capability to support ROV deployment:

No, dynamic positioning system

Support Offered to EurofleetsPlus Users:

All vessel equipment will be made available to EurofleetsPlus Users on request. Technical support on vessel equipment will be available during the entire survey.

Vessel availability by location and by year/time of year for Eurofleets+:

Year	Location	Availability by Month	Ports of operation in the period of availability
2020	Normal operating area as above	2-3 weeks, July-August 2020	Constanta
2021	Normal operating area as above	2-3 weeks, July-August 2020	Constanta
2022	Normal operating area as above	2-3 weeks, July-August 2020	Constanta

Contact Details

Applicants are welcomed to discuss the initial feasibility of their work while they prepare their application with the operator of RV Mare Nigrum at: contact@geoecomar.ro

Medical certification required for joining the vessel and the list of acceptable certificates.

All scientific staff can be embarked without a certificate. Everyone will sign a statement on their own responsibility that they are medically fit.

Are additional medical checks required

None

Survival training certification required for joining vessel

List of acceptable equivalent certification:

SCTW Personal survival techniques training

Additional certification required e.g. Ship security awareness / other

None

Diplomatic clearance required for area of operation

Yes, for operation in neighbouring EEZs e.g. Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russian Federation, Georgia.

Additional clearances required for area or type of activity

Romania, National Research,82m long,delivered 1971. Operates 100 days per annum.