Here is a virtual tour of the R/V Manta, the boat I have been deck hand on for the past 3 years.


R/V Manta

back deck

Back deck

Under A-frame, lokoing forward on back deck

Wet Lab

Dry Lab

Eating/working/movie watching area

Gally area

Head

Upper Center stateroom

Upper Port stateroom, Identical one on starboard side.

Stairs to bridge

hard to see controls/nav equipment/ engine monitors and gauges

Bench seating in bridge/ my bed during 24hr ops. (2 captains, only 1 deckhand)

Chart table, Radio, captain's chair

This is the boat I get to be captain of. Side is black from the rubber, rub-rails on the side of the boat. It gets all over when you raise and lower the RHIB into the water. Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat, 45hp gasoline outboard

Aft steering station, Winch/A-frame control station

Oceanographic winch, 4 channel data cable inside the steele cable 3200lb lifting capacity (left), Trawl winch 10000lb lift (right)

knuckle boom crane stowed

Knuckel-boom extended

Knuckel-boom crane controls

Caterpillar C32 V12 twin turbocharged Main Diesel Engine 1600Hp (2)

tank room through door

watertight bulkhead door

port tankroom, Water desalinator, hot water heaters(2), FW holding tank

lower state room(2)

stairs to lower birth/tank room door

Starboard Tank room, AC/Waste Treatment/waste holding talk

High Pressure dive compressor

Steering rams

Pretty Pineappling cool. Monkey on a boat. I also looks that there is enough that can be fixd while you are not studiying the marine life.

So do you work the boat, AND science the waters?

That's what I thought when you told me about it. But it seems like you do a lot of non biology work, too.

I exclusively do non biology work. I was essentially the boat's chief engineer and deckhand when we were underway. I will not do biology research myself until I go back to school for my masters and PhD.

Thanks for showing us the Manta. You've talked about it a lot, so it's cool to be able to visualize it now.