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ORV Sagar Nidhi:Sagar Nidhi a state of art ice-class research vessel can accommodate 30 scientists with endurance of 45 days. This is an Ice-class research vessel adopted with Dynamic Positioning System will keep its position stable, which is required for oceanographic research. It has a huge deck area for deploying ROV/Manned submersibles/ Tsunami monitoring system. Gondola arrangement is also made for precision acoustic measurements. Drop Keel facility is made to fit any underwater transducers without dry docking the vessel. One separate lab is designed and installed with integrated survey systems with modern scientific survey equipments like single and multi beam echo sounder for shallow and deep waters, sub bottom profiler, acoustic current profiler. The CTD Rosette is also commissioned to collect water samples at different water depths up to 6000 meter along with conductivity, temperature, density, chlorophyll, Rhodamine, salinity, pH etc profiler. Separate sampling room is built adjacent to the wet lab and geological core cutter lab. A cold room is designed to maintain up to -20 deg Celsius temperature to store the samples. An Automatic Weather Station is set up to collect and store real time weather parameters like wind speed, direction, humidity, barometric pressure, solar radiations etc. All these scientific data can be stored in server and database will be managed using Marine Data Management System, which is setup onboard. Scientific winches like hydrographic winch, CTD winch, Active heave compensation winch etc are available onboard for deployment and retrieval of scientific equipments. All winches are facilitated with 6000-meter length rope. This vessel is also made with advanced Integrated Bridge system where all navigational related equipments are integrated with each other. E-mail sending/receiving can be done for scientists to hold continuous communications with shore. Soon this vessel will be facilitated with VSAT communication system. There is separate officer/scientists recreation room available. Modern gymnasium and sauna room also setup onboard to maintain physical fitness.
Vessel Specification:
Name of the Vessel : ORV Sagar Nidhi IMO Number : 9384485 MMSI Number : 419683000 Call Sign : AUCE Port of Registry : Chennai, India Length overall : 103.6 m Length BP : 87.60 m Beam : 18.00 m Draft : 4.20 m GRT : 4862 MT Endurance : 45 days Speed : 15 knots Fresh water capacity : 350MT Fuel capacity : 900 MT Accommodation : Scientific: 30 ;Officers & Crew : 24 + 1
Sagar Nidhi Sl.No. Equipment Name Manufacturer's Name   Sampling Equipments 1 CTD Rosette (CTD with water Sampler 12 Bottles) General Oceanics Upto 6000 meter water depth 2 Thermosalinograph Seabird Electronics (SBE45) connected with DGPS I/P 3 Automatic weather station Vaisala 4 Gravity Corer 1.5m length Norinco 5 Weiner Grab Norinco 6 Zoo plankton net Norinco 5 CTD with rosette* Seabird Electronics 6 Gravity corer 6m length* Express Engineering, Chennai         Deck Machinery 1 CTD Winch Upto 6000m, 6mm, 0.3T Capacity 2 Hydrographic Winch Upto 6000m, 6mm, 0.3T Capacity 3 Off shore crane - 10 T @19 m Pelligrini 4 Active Heave Compensated deep sea winch 3000m Umbilical/6000m Aramid Kley France 5 A-Frame 10T and 60T Pelligrini 6 Deck Cranes - 3 Tons SWL : 2nos Heila 7 Deck Cranes - 1 Ton SWL :2nos Heila 8 Traction winch - 30 T SWL Kley France         Analysis Equipments 1 PH meter 2nos. EUTech 2 CRO (Cathode Ray Oscilloscope) Protek 6502 3 Vapormatic 770 Autoclave, Italy 4 Laminar Flow Aslair, Italy 5 Auto analyzer, PC connected Skalar 6 Chlorophyll Analyzer Skalar 7 Microscope with Camera, PC connected Leica 8 Auto salino meter Tsurumi Seiki Co. Ltd, Japan 9 Lab Regrigerator Centrifuge Remi 10 Water purification plant Millipore 11 Spectrophoto meter Shimadzu 12 Electronic Balance Mettler Toledo 13 Magnetic stirrer Remi 14 Vaccum pump with filter manifold Millipore 15 Hot plate           Scientific storage 1 MDM (Marine data management) System Kongsberg 2 Cold Room (Freezer) Fincantieri 3 Incubator 2nos Binder 4 Refrigerators 3nos Evermed         Survey Equipments 1 Shallow water multi beam echo sounder Reson 7111 model (for shallow water) water depth) 2 Deep water multi beam echo sounder Reson 7150 model (for deep water) 3 PDS2000 Reson 4 Single beam echo sounder Kongsberg EA600 (Shallow & Deep) 5 Sub bottom profiler INNOMAR SES2000 DEEP (150m penet.) 6 ADCP RD Instruments 7 Pinger (Benthos) Teledyne 8 SVP 25 Sound Velocity Profiler Reson 9 MRU IXSEA OCTANS III 10 GPS System Trimble         Others 1 Computers for scientists HP Computer room
BTV Sagar Manjusha: Sagar Manjusha can accommodate 11 scientists with endurance of 20 days. This vessel has sophisticated facilities to collect the water samples at different depth, to collect core samples, sediment grab samples and other marine biological and chemical samples. The vessel will be soon facilitated with survey equipment like single beam and multibeam echosounders, analytical equipments like auto analyzer (for Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite, Silicate & Phosphate), Chlorophyll Analyzer, Microscope, Centrifuge, deep freezer etc.
Vessel Specification:
Name of the Vessel : BTV Sagar Manjusha IMO Number : 9342920 MMSI Number : 419063100 Call Sign : AUKJ Port of Registry : Chennai Length overall : 60.0 m GRT : 1065 Mt NRT : 320 Mt Speed : 11.5 knots @ 90% MCR Fresh water capacity : 125 ton Fuel oil capacity : 125 MT Lube oil capacity : 3 T Classification : IRS Accommodation : Scientific: 11, Officers: 08, Crew: 10
Sagar Manjusha Sl.No. Equipment Name Manufacturer's Name   Sampling Equipments 1 Niskin water sampler 5lts General Oceanics 2 Van Veen Grab Norinco 3 Devil Messenger Ruby Engineering 4 Zoo Plankton Net Norinco 5 Flow meter General Oceanics 6 Corer Norinco 7 Sachi Disc Murugappa Instruments 8 CTD Seabird (upto 300 meter water depth)         Deck Machinery 1 Winch Pelligrini, 6000m length, SWL=12.5T, dia=20mm 2 A-Frame 12.5T 3 Payout pulley KC Denmark 4 Winch Seamac, 800m length, SWL=700kg, dia-8mm         Analysis Equipments 1 Spectro photo meter HP 2 Vaccum pump Millipore 3 Docimate - Auto dispensing unit Micro Devices 4 Millipore water purification plant Millipore Elix 5 Auto Analyzer * Skalar 6 Chlorophyll Analyzer * Skalar 7 Microscope * Leica 8 Centrifuge * Remi         Scientific storage 1 Refrigerator BPL 2 Deep Freezer * Leads India         Survey Equipments 1 15KVA UPS online* Uniline 2 Multibeam echo sounder * Reson SeaBat 7101 Model 3 MRU* IXSEA 4 DGPS* Starfix (Fugro) 5 SV Profiler* AML 6 PDS 2000 Acquisition system* Reson 7 Post processing system* Reson   * yet to be accommodated
CRV Sagar Paschimi & CRV Sagar Purvi: Both CRVs can accommodate 6 scientists with an endurance of 10 days. Both the vessels have sophisticated facilities to collect the water samples at different depth, to collect core samples, sediment grab samples and other marine biological and chemical samples. The vessels have two laboratories for sample analysis and preservation. The laboratory is mainly used for sample analysis for nutrients, chlorophyll & bacterial studies etc. The lab has spectrophotometer, water purification plant, zoom stereo microscope, incubator, clean work bench and etc for onboard analysis of samples and a work computer with printer for preparation of reports. The computer is also interfaced to the equipments for data downloading.
Vessel Specification:
Name of the Vessel : CRV Sagar Paschimi IMO Number : 8928313 MMSI Number : 419062000 Call Sign : VTTK Port of Registry : Chennai Length overall : 30.15 m Draft : 1.96 m Propulsion : C.P.P Gross tonnage : 187 T Endurance : 10 days Engine output : 105KW x 2 Accommodation : Scientific: 6+1
Sagar Paschimi Sl.No. Equipment Name Company (Make) Name   Sampling Equipments 1 Niskin water sampler 5lts General Oceanics 2 Van Veen Grab Norinco 3 Devil Messenger Ruby Engineering 4 Zoo Plankton Net Norinco 5 Flow meter General Oceanics 6 Trawl Net SIFNET 7 Corer Norinco 8 Sachi Disc Murugappa Instruments 9 CTD Sea Bird Electronics (Upto 300mt water depth)         Deck Machinery 1 Seamac winch with pay out indicator SeaMac, Rope thickness: 8mm ,length: 800m ,   SWL=700kg 2 Seamac winch SeaMac, Rope thickness: 4mm ,length: 1000m , SWL=700kg 3 Trawl winch A Frame Norlau, SWL=1Ton, 12mm dia, Length=250m 4 Payout Pulley KC Denmark         Analysis Equipments 1 Spectro photo meter Shimadzu 2 PH meter   3 Docimate - Auto dispensing unit Micro Devices 4 Vaccum pump Millipore 5 Manifold water filtration unit Millipore 6 Millipore water purification plant Millipore Elix 7 Laminar flow Clas 8 Water Quality Kit (will shared to Purvi & Manjusha)           Scientific storage 1 BOD Incubator Apna 2 Refrigerator BPL 3 Freezer Labline 4 Air Oven           Survey Equipments 1 Hull mounted multibeam echosounder Simrad EM1002 Model 2 DGPS Trimble 3 MRU IXSEA Octans 4 SVP Probe Applied Microsystems 5 5KVA UPS online Uniline 6 EM1002 Operator computer (SIS) Kongsberg Simrad 7 Data Processing Computer (Neptune, Cfloor etc) Kongsberg Simrad
Vessel Specification:
Name of the Vessel : CRV Sagar Purvi IMO Number : 9123829 MMSI Number : 419004200 Call Sign : VWFQ Port of Registry : Chennai Length overall : 30.15 m Draft : 1.96 m Propulsion : C.P.P Gross tonnage : 187 T Endurance : 10 days Engine output : 105KW x 2 Accommodation : Scientific: 6+1
Sagar Purvi Sl.No. Equipment Name Manufacturer's Name   Sampling Equipments 1 Niskin water sampler 5lts General Oceanics 2 Van Veen Grab Norinco 3 Devil Messenger Ruby Engineering 4 Zoo Plankton Net Norinco 5 Flow meter General Oceanics 6 Trawl Net SIFNET 7 Corer Norinco 8 Sachi Disc Murugappa Instruments 9 CTD Sea Bird Electronics (Upto 300mt water depth)         Deck Machinery 1 Seamac winch with pay out indicator SeaMac, Rope thickness: 8mm ,length :800m   , SWL=700kg 2 Seamac winch SeaMac, Rope thickness: 4mm ,length: 1000m length, SWL=700kg 3 Trawl winch A Frame Norlau, SWL=1Ton, 12mm dia, Length=250m 4 Payout Pulley KC Denmark         Analysis Equipments 1 Spectro photo meter Hewlett Packard 2 PH meter PenType 3 Docimate - Auto dispensing unit Micro Devices 4 Vaccum pump Millipore 5 Manifold water filtration unit Millipore 6 Millipore water purification plant Millipore Elix 7 Laminar flow Clas 8 Microscope Leica 9 Microscope Radical Instruments         Scientific storage 1 BOD Incubator Apna 2 Refrigerator BPL 3 Freezer Labline 4 Air Oven           Survey Equipments (Multibeam is mobile instrument & Kept in VMC Store Room) 1 5KVA UPS online Uniline 2 Side mounted multibeam echosounder Reson SeaBat 7101 Model 3 DGPS Trimble 4 MRU (Repair and sent for servicing) IXSEA Octans 5 SVP Probe Applied Microsystems 6 PDS 2000 Acquisition System Reson 7 Data Processing Computer (QINSy) Reson