RV Belgica Equipment
General characteristics | |
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Overall length | 50.90 m |
Overall width | 10.00 m |
Draft min./max. | 4.20 m / 4.55 m |
Water displacement | 1132 t |
Year of construction | 1984 |
Home port | Zeebrugge, Belgium |
Autonomy / distance | 5000 miles at 12 knots |
Autonomy / time | 20 days |
Working area | N36° - N65°, W010° - E012° |
Call sign | ORGQ |
IMO number | 8222563 |
MMSI number (AIS) | 205.218.000 |
Residential accommodation | |
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Crew | 15 people |
Scientific staff | 12 people; 16 people when accommodation container is used |
Two person cabins | 13 |
One person cabin | 1 |
Accommodation container | 4 persons |
Air conditioning | all rooms, all laboratories and the pilothouse |
Noise in the rooms | maximum 60 dBA |
Propulsion | |
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Main diesel engine | ABC DZ, 6 cylinder, 1154 kW |
Electrical drive | 82 kW electric motor for silent operation |
Maximum speed | 12.5 knots |
Nominal speed | 10 knots (850 rpm) |
Speed during fishing activities | 4 knots |
Electrical system | |
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Two main generators | Caterpilar diesel engine 275 kW; Van kaick alternator 325 kVA, 440V, 60 Hz |
Stabilised electrical power | Aros Sentry RPS UPS system, 220 V, 50 Hz, 20 kVA |
Hydraulic unit | |
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Hydraulic system I | two main pumps, 500 l/min, 230 bar, two auxiliary pumps, 220 l/min, 230 bar, powers fishing winches, bow and stern propellers, net drum winch |
Hydraulic system II | two pumps, 133 l/min, 230 bar, powers rear gantry, side gantry and davit, oceanographic winches |
Effer crane | powered by two pumps, 42 l/min, 60 bar |
Navigation equipment | |
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Positioning system | Septentrio AsteRxeH RTK receiver with heading option, Furuno GP-150 EGNOS DGPS receiver |
Radar | DECCA Bridgemaster , model E250, Furuno FAR-2117 |
Trackplotter | Transas Navi-Sailor 3000 ECDIS |
Ship’s heading | Anschütz STD 20 gyro compass |
Ship’s speed | Consilium SAL 860T Doppler log |
AIS | Furuno FA-100 |
Telecommunications | |
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GMDSS system | JRC model JHS32A |
Inmarsat – Fleet 77 | Furuno Felcom with 128 kbps |
VSAT | Intellian V110 stabilised antenna with iDirect modem |
Deck infrastructures and winches | |
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Hydraulic crane | Effer Marine Knuckle type 44.000-3SL/1M |
Fishing winches | 2 Brusselle winches, max. load 8 tonnes |
Rear gantry | 5.90 m useful height, 5.00 m width on deck |
Net drum winch | Brusselle winch, capacity 7 m³ / 5 tonnes |
Revolving gantry | capacity 1 tonne, 3.0 m useful height, 1.3 m width on deck |
Davit | capacity 0.5 tonne, max. height 1.8 m |
Oceanographic winches | single drum: 1000 m of 5 mm RVS cable, double drum: 1700 m of 6.4 mm coaxial cable |
Laboratories, activity zones and workstations | |
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Rear working deck | 140 m² |
Side working deck | 20 m² |
Wet lab | 20 m² |
Dry lab space | microbiology (12 m²), chemical (10 m²) and biology (12 m²) lab |
Fish lab | 20 m² with direct access to the rear deck |
Computer room | 12 m² |
Pilot house | two zones are reserved for scientific work (17 m²) |
Cold store | to – 25°C (8 m²), to 0°C (6 m²) |
Storage | 70 m² at the intermediate deck |
Containers | two 20 feet containers can be installed on the upper deck (level 1) |
Data acquisition and processing system | |
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Data acquisition | 200 parameters at 5 Hz, real-time data quality control, HP rx2660 workstation, 64-port RS232 multiplexer |
Data storage | Informix SQL database |
Data presentation | real-time data and offline data presentation on Windows computer, near real-time data presentation on website |
Scientific equipment on board | |
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Specific equipment | Millipore RiOS 8 and Millipore Milli-Q ultra pure water, Memmert low temperature incubator (2x), Alfa Laval MMB 304 S continuous centrifuge, Frierichs meteo station (2x) |
CTD equipment | Sea-Bird SBE19 CTD (2x), Sea-Bird SBE9plus CTD (2x), Sea-Bird SBE21 thermosalinograph (2x) |
Water sampling equipment | Sea-Bird model 32 carousel for 12 10 liter Niskin bottles (2x), Various Niskin and Go-Flo water sampling bottles |
Sediment sampling | boxcorer NIOZ model, Van Veen grab, Reineck corer, Bowers & Connelly multicorer |
Sampling biotope | Benthic sledge, High speed encased Gulfstream Plankton sampler, 3 m trawl with shrimp net |
Fishing gear | Various trawls with dedicated nets (property of ILVO) |
Depth measuring equipment | Kongsberg EM3002D shallow water multibeam echosounder system, , Kongsberg EA400 with 33, 38 and 210 kHz transducer. Auxiliary sensors: Seatex MRU5 motion sensor, Valeport miniSVS sound velocity sensor, Applied Microsystems SVplus sound velocity profiler. |
Seawater current | Hull mounted Teledyne RDI ADCP model Workhorse Mariner 300 kHzn Teledyne RDI ADCP model, Workhorse sentinel 1200 kHz for deployment on tripod or TRBM (trawl resistant Bottom Mount), Valeport model 106 velocimeter |
AUMS | Parameters measured by the Autonomous Underway Measurement System: Turbidity, oxygen, pH, chlorophyll, blue algae, CDOM, salinity, pCO2, fluorescence, Par, hyperspectral irradiance, NO3, NH3, PO4, SiO2 and NO2 |
Tripods | Up to three tripods equipped with measuring instruments can be deployed from the R/V Belgica. The available instruments are: SonTek Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter ADVOcean 5 MHz, SonTek ADP 3 MHz acoustic Doppler profiler, Sea-Bird SBE37 CT system, Campbell Scientific OBS-3+ turbidity sensor, Nortek Aquadopp current profiler, Sequoia Scientific LISST-100X (Laser In-Situ Scattering and Transmissometer), Aquascat 1000 ABS (Acoustic Backscatter System) |
Complete technical specifications (PDF)
Ship's layout (PDF)
General characteristics
Residential accommodation
Propulsion
Electrical system
Hydraulical unit
Navigation equipment
Telecommunication
Deck infrastructures and winches
Laboratories, activity zones and workstations
Data acquisition and processing system
Scientific equipment on board