WAKATAKA MARU

PARTICULARS

PRINCIPAL PARTICULARS

Official number
132240
Call sign
JQIX
Length over all
57.73 m
Length between perpendiculars
50.60 m
Breadth (mld)
11.00 m
Depth (mld)
Upper deck
4.50 m
Superstructure deck
6.85 m
Full load draft (scantling, mld)
4.456 m
Gross tonnage
692 T

COMPLEMENT

Captain & Officers
6 p
Crew
12 p
Researchers
8 p
Others
3 p
Total
29 p

CAPACITY

Fish refrigerated hold
abt. 20 m3
Fuel oil tank
209 m3
Potable water tank
60 m3
Fresh water tank
30 m3
Water ballast tank
110 m3

PROPULSION & GENERATING EQUIPMENT

Main engine
YANMAR T240-ET2 1000 PS×715 rpm×2 sets
Reduction gear
NIIGATA CONVERTER MRGCP220×1 set
Propeller
TECHNO NAKASHIMA XS-76/86 CCP, 4-blades×1 set
Generator engine
YANMAR S165L-SN 540 PS×1200 rpm×2 sets
Main generator
NISHISHIBA NTAKL-VEK 450 KVA×2 sets

SPEED AND ENDURANCE

Trial max. speed
13.64 knots
Full load service speed (85%MCR, 15%S.M.)
abt. 12 knots
Endurance
abt. 6000 sea miles

SCHEDULE

Keel laid
Mar 17, 1994
Lanched
Dec 6, 1994
Delivered
Mar 24, 1995

BUILDER

MITSUI ENGINEERING & SHIPBUILDING CO., LTD. TAMANO SHIPYARD

RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

LABORATORY(WET)
Senser of:
CTD/CTD Octopus
Profiling reflectance spectroradiometer
Surface environment monitoring system
Portable CTD
Memorypack CTD
Digital reversing thermometer
Digital reversing pressure meter
LABORATORY(SEMI-DRY)
Freeze-dryer
Ultrapure water producing system
Sample freeze refrigerator
Medical refrigerator
Ultrasonic washing machine
Oven
Autoclave
Stereoscopic microsccope
Automated dissolved oxygen recording titrator
Autoanalyzer
Cultivation chamber
Mass spectrometer
Observation system on behavior of marine organisms
LABORATORY(DRY)
Data recording & analyzing part of:
Acousitc doppler current profiler
CTD/CTD Octopus
Surface environment monitoring system
Quantitative echo sounder system
XBT
Profiling reflectance spectroradiometer
Mocness
BREEDING ROOM
Rearing apparatus with water temperature control system
Fluorescent microscope
Autosal
Observation system on behavior of marine organisms
BIOLOGICAL & LOW TEMPERATURE LABORATORY
Deep freezer
CONTAINER LABORATORY(HRPT)
HRPT analyzing system
CONTAINER LABORATORY(DNA)
DNA analyzing system
SONAR DOME
Acousitic doppler current profiler
Quantitative echo sounder system
Bottom mapping soner
All-round soner
Receiver for biotelemetry system
OTHERS
Selfpropelled underwater video system
Pumping system for sampling fish egg, larva and plankton
GPS buoy
Sediment trap
Mooring system with instruments
Drifting system with instruments
Go-flow water sampling bottls
Multiplecore

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