Witness Collaboration France - Netherlands Ifremer and Royal NIOZ short history
Les moyens navals de recherche océanographique
1998 - MEDINAUT cruise NL: partly with exchange of shipdays RV NADIR/submersible NAUTILE and RV PELAGIA
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2001 - POMME cruise France: use of RV PELAGIA for recovery of 7 moorings and a large meteo bouy
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Marieke J. Rietveld, NIOZ, the Netherlands
26 March 2007
1 2001 - 1 day intervention RV L’ATALANTE with ROV VICTOR for successful recovery of brand new CTD lost at Porcupine bank at 800 m
2 For the Netherlands this flexibility created by the exchange of large ships, ROV and unique submersible on an ad hoc basis and the wealth of know-how that could be shared has proven to be very favourable. Next step: Since October 2002 NIOZ is a member of OFEG • For NIOZ as a small partner within OFEG, with just one medium sized research ship (Ocean class), the access to Global class (outremer) ships and large equipment is of utmost importance. • Vice versa, NIOZ’ medium sized research ship (Ocean class) is an essential exchange tool, and according to the number of exchanges within OFEG, also much wanted.
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4 OFEG is the key player within the European Community of Academic Research Vessels (cf. OFWG Report 2007)
By this European collaboration OFEG as a virtual European Research Fleet, the much-praised flexibility and exchange of know-how should be maintained, guaranteeing an optimal mix of large and medium sized vessels
Except for the Netherlands all OFEG members have a number of research ships in different classes, including Global Class.
- a complementary set Class description Academic RV fleet:
as well as a range of ROVs, and large exchangeable equipment.
to achieve this goal harmonization is essential and interoperability is paramount
51 BELGICA A962 56 AKADEMIK 60 ARANDA 85 L'ATALANTE 56 LE SUROIT MARION DUFRESNE 121 POURQUOI PAS? 105 THALASSA 74 ALKOR 55 HEINCKE 55 M.S. MERIAN 95 METEOR 98 POLARSTERN 118 POSEIDON 61 SONNE 98 AEGAEO 62 BJARNI SæMUNDSSON 56 ÁRNI FRIðRIKSSON 70 CELTIC EXPLORER 65 CELTIC VOYAGER 31 EXPLORA 73 45 UNIVERSITATIS 61 URANIA 56 VEJAS
Belgium Bulgaria Finland France France France France France Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany Germany Greece Iceland Iceland Ireland Ireland Italy Italy Italy Lithuania
66 Netherlands PELAGIA 57 Norway DR FRIDTJOF NANSEN 77 Norway G.O.SARS 47 Norway HAKON MOSBY 64 Norway JAN MAYEN 64 Norway JOHAN HJORT 48 Poland OCEANIA 68 Portugal DON CARLOS I 47 Portugal CAPRICORNO 47 Portugal NORUEGA 82 Romania MARE NIGRUM 67 CORNIDE DE SAAVEDRASpain 37 Spain GARCIA DEL CID 83 Spain HESPERIDES 70 SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA Spain* VIZCONDE DE EZA 53 Spain 61 Sweden ARGOS 40 Turkey BILIM CHARLES DARWIN 69 UK * 90 UK DISCOVERY JAMES CLARK ROSS 99 UK 90 UK* JAMES COOK 35 UK PRINCE MADOG Europe: 46 RVs run by 19 countries
Present OFEG fleet L'ATALANTE LE SUROIT POURQUOI PAS? THALASSA
85 France 56 France 105 France 74 France
ALKOR HEINCKE MARIA S. S. MERIAN METEOR POLARSTERN POSEIDON SONNE
47 Spain GARCIA DEL CID 82 Spain HESPERIDES SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA 70 Spain* DISCOVERY JAMES CLARK ROSS JAMES COOK
90 UK 99 UK 90 UK
- 10 Global Class - 90% of European Fleet - 8 Ocean Class - 53% of European Fleet - 3 Regional Class (not taken up into comparisson)
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basis: average lifespan 30 years
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8 Conclusion:
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To maintain a viable OFEG fleet as the core of the European research fleet the smallest OFEG partner must offer all possible support;
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Sonne 10
Polarstern Meteor
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l’Atalante 6
JCR Poseidon
Le Suroit
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at the same time NIOZ needs every support from its OFEG partners to warant replacement of its one and only academic research ship, to keep its position as a partner within OFEG.
JHjort Pelagia
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Jan Mayen 0 2007
2 0 08
2 00 9
2010 ocean
2011
2 0 12
20 1 3
20 1 4
2015
2016
2 01 7
20 1 8
global
2019
2 0 20
2 02 1
20 2 2
total
Evolution of OFEG fleet without any* replacements *RRS DISCOVERY replacement included
Colloque sur les moyens navals de recherche océanographique
NERC & NOC Perspective
Engins d’intervention sous-marine « Underwater vehicles » A perspective from the UK Natural Environment Research Council and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
Underwater vehicles increasing in importance for testing hypotheses; for discovery; for survey; for monitoring.
Potential to become pervasive in many disciplines within marine and earth science if the technology delivers on its promise.
Consider spectrum of underwater vehicles costing from
