Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p RV Investigator is an Australian marine research vessel which is designed by RALion (joint venture between Robert Allan Ltd. and Alion Science and Technology) and is under construction in Singapore. It will be owned and managed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), through Australia's Marine National Facility, with its operations funded by the Australian Government to undertake oceanographic, geoscience, ecosystem and fisheries research. In May 2009 the Australian Government allocated A$120 million for a new ocean-going research vessel to replace the 1972 built RV Southern Surveyor, which has served as the principal research ship for Australia’s Marine National Facility since 1988.The Investigator will be able to accommodate up to 40 scientists, go to sea for up to 60 days at a time and spend up to 300 days of the year at sea on research voyages. Special features of the ship are a ‘gondola’, similar to a winged keel, mounted 1.5 m below the hull, and two drop keels, to carry scientific instruments below the layer of microbubbles created by the movement of the ship’s hull through the water. Such instrumentation includes acoustic mappers and a pelagic sediment profiler to produce maps of the sea floor. The hull and the machinery of the ship have been designed to operate as quietly as possible to enhance its scientific capabilities.. }
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- RV_Investigator abstract "RV Investigator is an Australian marine research vessel which is designed by RALion (joint venture between Robert Allan Ltd. and Alion Science and Technology) and is under construction in Singapore. It will be owned and managed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), through Australia's Marine National Facility, with its operations funded by the Australian Government to undertake oceanographic, geoscience, ecosystem and fisheries research. In May 2009 the Australian Government allocated A$120 million for a new ocean-going research vessel to replace the 1972 built RV Southern Surveyor, which has served as the principal research ship for Australia’s Marine National Facility since 1988.The Investigator will be able to accommodate up to 40 scientists, go to sea for up to 60 days at a time and spend up to 300 days of the year at sea on research voyages. Special features of the ship are a ‘gondola’, similar to a winged keel, mounted 1.5 m below the hull, and two drop keels, to carry scientific instruments below the layer of microbubbles created by the movement of the ship’s hull through the water. Such instrumentation includes acoustic mappers and a pelagic sediment profiler to produce maps of the sea floor. The hull and the machinery of the ship have been designed to operate as quietly as possible to enhance its scientific capabilities.".