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The research vessel Zirfaea was delivered earlier this year and since then the vessel has been stationed in the harbor of Scheveningen.

This multifunctional vessel, built at the shipyard Bodewes Volharding at Foxhol, Groningen in close coop- eration with Conoship International,

Groningen, is designed to perform a wide range of survey services in the

North Sea and on the Continental

Shelf.

Among others, these services will be: charting of shipping lanes' drafts; sea bottom and soil investigations; maintenance/inspection surveys of executed dredging works; seabed pipeline inspections; wreck tracing; tracing of lost, dangerous, cargoes; drawing of seabed samples and sea- water samples for chemical, physi- cal and biological research; and cleaning of oil spills.

The vessel is provided with a large open deck area of656-sq.-ft. in which a moonpool measuring 12- by 12- feet is situated.

The working deck will be used to deploy the remote operated hoisted platform and the oil spill combatment equipment. Other fea- tures of the vessel are a Simrad dynamic positioning system, and a diesel-electric propulsion unit con- sisting of two Lips thrusters, 650 kW each, and two Lips bow thrust- ers, 300 kW each. Furthermore, state-of-the-art equipment has been placed onboard for all her duties, including compact SSB 2000/HF radio equipment by Sailor; FR-2010 sea radar and an ARPA radar, both supplied by Furuno; gyrocompass and autopilot by Plath; DGPS,

Hyperfix positioning system by

Decca; and JRC-JUE-45A MK11 by

Satcom-A.

The Zirfaea was designed by

Nevesbu, The Hague.

The shipyard Bodewes 'Volharding" Foxhol B.V. contracted a car and passenger ferry for Cana- dian owners in 1989 and since then the shipyard built several compli- cated vessels such as a specialized multipurpose vessel, very shallow draft liquefied gas carriers and, fi- nally, the Zirfaea. At present, an- other two multipurpose vessels are being constructed.

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