History of WHOI Ships

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Atlantis, 1997-present
Atlantis replaced the Atlantis II and was named for WHOI's original research vessel. She made her first call in home port on April 1997. The new Atlantis has advanced support facilities to service and launch submersibles, such as Alvin, and a wide variety of ROVs at locations throughout the global oceans. She is one of the most sophisticated research vessels afloat, equipped with precision navigation, bottom mapping, and satellite communications systems.

Atlantis is owned by the US Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in support of the US academic ocean research community.

Specifications
Built: 1997 by Halter Marine Inc., of Moss Point, Mississippi
Length: 274'
Beam: 52.5'
Draft: 17'
Capacity: crew-23, science-36

(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, WHOI)