Technical Tour of the Legendary 172' Ex-NOAA Research Ship
- The Yacht Channel
- 3 days ago
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A U.S.-Built Research Ship of the Highest Standards
Sadly, this vessel went to scrappers. Built for the U.S. Navy and NOAA, MNG Flattery is one of the finest ocean-going research ships in the world. The US Government built these ships to the highest possible standards.
Ex-NOAA David Starr Jordan has been a workhorse for NOAA and science. So far she has spent an estimated 8,949 days at sea and sailed more than 1.3 million miles. Researchers aboard the vessel measured and weighed 1,000 sea turtles, took 27,000 photographs using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), and conducted 27,000 oceanographic sampling casts, 22,000 plankton tows and 4,700 fish trawls.
The ship has participated in expeditions extending from Alaska to Peru and the Galapagos Islands. Recently Ocean Starr was chartered to a private non-profit studying the Pacific gyre (floating plastic), baselining and recording this danger to our oceans.
Ocean Starr should be seriously considered by the hard core adventurer looking for an expedition yacht conversion candidate with proven ocean-going credentials.
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